is collections.sort method only used for List type of collections?

Question

friends, I am new to Java-Collection. I want to ask does Collections.sort() method only used for/by collections which are List type. I was unable t

Answer 1

The error is because the Collections class only supports a List.

public static > void sort(List list)

To sort your collection, you can try something like:

Collection collection=new HashSet();
collection.add("zebra");
collection.add("frog");
collection.add("bison");
collection.add("puma");
ArrayList temp = new ArrayList(collection);
Collections.sort(temp);
collection = new HashSet(temp);

Hope this helps.