Java / Collections
Difference between Comparable and Comparator interface.
| Comparable. | Comparator. |
| Class whose objects to be sorted must implement this interface and to implement compareTo(Object) method. | Class whose objects to be sorted do not need to implement this interface. Instead a third class can implement this interface to sort and implement compare method. |
| Sorting logic must be in same class whose objects are being sorted. Hence this is called natural ordering of objects. | Sorting logic is in separate class. Hence we can write different sorting based on different attributes of objects to be sorted. |
| Collections.sort(List). Objects will be sorted on the basis of CompareTo method. | Collections.sort(List, Comparator). Objects will be sorted based on the Compare method in Comparator. |
| Comparable located in Java.lang package. | Comparator located in Java.util package. |
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