com.epicentric.common
Class DateComparator

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.epicentric.common.DateComparator

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

Deprecated. As of 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later.

public class DateComparator

extends Object

implements com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

Date comparison utility.

Constructor Summary

DateComparator()
Deprecated.

Method Summary

int	compare(Object a, Object b) Deprecated. As of 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

equals

Constructor Detail

DateComparator

public DateComparator()

Deprecated.

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(Object a,
                   Object b)

Deprecated. As of 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later.

Casts two objects as dates and then compares them. If the result of the cast is not a date for both values, a ClassCastException will be thrown. Note that for comparison purposes, null is considered to be greater than (after) any non-null value.

Specified by:

compare in interface com.sun.java.util.collections.Comparator

Parameters:

a - first object in the comparison; may be null

b - second object in the comparison; may be null

Returns:

-1 if a is before b or b is null
0 if a == b or both a and b are null
1 if a is after b or a is null