1   /*
2    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2005, The University of Sheffield.
3    *
4    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
5    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
6    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
7    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
8    *
9    *  Valentin Tablan 02/10/2001
10   *
11   *  $Id: NameComparator.java,v 1.4 2005/01/11 13:51:37 ian Exp $
12   *
13   */
14  package gate.util;
15  
16  import java.util.Comparator;
17  
18  /**
19   * Compares {@link NameBearer}s by name (string comparation)
20   */
21  public class NameComparator implements Comparator {
22  
23    public int compare(Object o1, Object o2){
24      NameBearer nb1 = (NameBearer)o1;
25      NameBearer nb2 = (NameBearer)o2;
26      return nb1.getName().compareTo(nb2.getName());
27    }
28  }