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"Natural order" simply means the order indicated by the implementation of the Comparable interface. For Strings, this is based on the Unicode character values. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Rafter [mailto:jeffrafter@e...] > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 11:21 PM > To: Jonathan Borden > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: [RDDL] Java Object Model > > > Potentially naive question: > > Is the use of a SortedMap (TreeMap in general) simply for > listing the keys > or is there an explicit reason this interface was chosen. Reading the > TreeMap JavaDoc it says that it sorts the keys in natural > order but can be > modified with a comparator. Is "natural order" the order by > which the > items were read into the cahce? Or are they typically going > to sorted with > an order of importance-- one schema type before another? > > I am looking to implement the API in another language and am trying to > figure out what type of List I should return as I don't have > a SortedMap > class. > > Sorry if this message proves flammable... <grin/> > > Thanks, > Jeff Rafter > Defined Systems >
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