ComparatorDemo
CSSE 221 – Fundamentals of Software Development Honors
Fall 2008–2009

This is an individual exercise. However, don't hesitate to ask questions of your instructor, student assistants and classmates as desired.

Goals

The goals of this exercise are to apply and hence reinforce your understanding of the use of:

• Comparator classes as function objects
• Nested classes, especially anonymous classes

Overview

You will checkout a project that has a list of Employees, and you will sort that list by using various Comparator classes with the sort method of the Collections class.

You will sort Employee objects by using:

• their natural ordering
• several other sort orders, with Comparator objects through:
  • a separate top-level class
  • a static nested class
  • a local class inside a method
  • an anonymous class

Instructions

1. Checkout your ComparatorDemo project from your individual respository.
2. Note that ComparatorDemo has several stubbed methods, each marked TODO. Implement those methods, testing each as you complete it, in the order that they appear (top to bottom).
   • There is no report associated with this exercise.
3. When you are done, commit your ComparatorDemo project to turn it in.
   • Make sure that it obeys our code conventions -- use Source ~ Format if needed.
   • Make sure that you documented your work appropriately.