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J. O’Conner Consulting, Inc.
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My personal digital assistant (PDA) provides contact information for friends, family, and coworkers. The PDA allows me to find a person’s phone number easily by searching on that person’s name. The information is sorted according to standard dictionary-sort order for the contact’s name. That is, the name Michèle comes before Robert in the list. Without this sort order, I would have difficulty finding names quickly and easily.Java technology programmers often use the
component to provide list views of similar data, whether it be a phone contact list or a grocery list. Despite the convenience of this user interface (UI) component, a
class provides sorted data. Instead, the default model provides its content in the same order as you enter it. If you enter unsorted data — for example, the letters B, C, and A — the model provides it to list components without sorting it to either ascending order — A, B, C — or to descending order — C, B, A. Lists are appropriate UI components for many applications, but an unsorted list has limited usefulness.
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