Yes, after JDK 1.4. It's very convenient.  Much easier than to read
Excel files.  Especially I only need 1 column most of the time.
Thanks a lot.

Wayne

I have released the Open Source FormattedDataSet API.  It has a couple
utility methods that will help you get the sorting done (Utils and
Array

Here is the code:

// convert request parms to an array
String[][] params=Utils.getParameters(request);
// sort by column 2 (arrays start at 0) in ascending order.  after
this call the array is sorted
ArrayComparator.sort(params, 1, "asc");

The array is now sorted.  If you want to sort by more than 1 column
you can do the following

ArrayComparator ac=new ArrayComparator();
ac.addSortCol(1,"desc");
ac.addSortCol(3,"asc");
ac.sort(myArray);
// the array will be sorted.  this is similar to a SQL order by
clause.
// i.e. when array indexing is accounted for it is similar to 'order
by col2 desc, col4 asc'

The FormattedDataSet does much more than this.  It is the easiest way
I have seen to generate dynamic text including html and xml.

Visit http://www.fdsapi.com to see a live demo that converts request
params into various outuputs (including html, csv, and xml), and to
see the java docs for the ArrayComparator.

steve - http://www.fdsapi.com, http://www.jamonapi.com