RFR 8009736: Comparator API cleanup

[Jason Mehrens]

Any chance the static method Comparator.reverseOrder()  will be renamed to something like reversedNaturalOrder?  Now all of the calls to Comparator.reverseOrder() take on new meaning.
 
Jason
 
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:04:38 -0700
> From: henry.jen at oracle.com
> To: lambda-dev at openjdk.java.net; core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: RFR 8009736: Comparator API cleanup
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please review http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/ccc/8009736.2/webrev/
> 
> Highlight of changes,
> 
> - Comparators class is now only package-private implementations. The
> public static methods have been move to other arguably more appropriate
> places, mostly in Comparator.
> 
> - Comparator.reverseOrder() is renamed to Comparator.reversed()
> 
> - nullsFirst(Comparator) and nullsLast(Comparator) are introduced to
> wrap up a comparator to be null-friendly.
> 
> To see the API changes, found the specdiff at
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/ccc/8009736.2/specdiff/overview-summary.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Henry