string sorting in java

1// how to sort string array in java without using sort method
2import java.util.Arrays;
3public class SortStringArray
4{
5   public static void main(String[] args)
6   {
7      String[] strPlaces = {"Great Barrier Reef", "Paris", "BoraBora", "Florence","Tokyo", "Cusco"};
8      int size = strPlaces.length;
9      for(int a = 0; a < size - 1; a++)
10      {
11         for(int b = a + 1; b < strPlaces.length; b++)
12         {
13            if(strPlaces[a].compareTo(strPlaces[b]) > 0)
14            {
15               String temp = strPlaces[a];
16               strPlaces[a] = strPlaces[b];
17               strPlaces[b] = temp;
18            }
19         }
20      }
21      System.out.println(Arrays.toString(strPlaces));
22   }
23}

1// java program to sort an array using Arrays.sort() method
2import java.util.Arrays;
3public class JavaArraySortMethod
4{
5   public static void main(String[] args)
6   {
7      String[] strGiven = {"Great Barrier Reef", "Paris", "borabora", "Florence","tokyo", "Cusco"};
8      Arrays.sort(strGiven);
9      System.out.println("Output(case sensitive) : " + Arrays.toString(strGiven));
10   }
11}

1import java.util.Arrays;
2
3public class Test
4{
5    public static void main(String[] args)
6    {
7        String original = "edcba";
8        char[] chars = original.toCharArray();
9        Arrays.sort(chars);
10        String sorted = new String(chars);
11        System.out.println(sorted);
12    }
13}
14

1String[] myArray = {"JavaFX", "HBase", "OpenCV", "Java", "Hadoop","Neo4j"};
2Arrays.sort(myArray);
3System.out.println(Arrays.toString(myArray));

1public class ArrayReturn3 {
2 
3    public static String[] sortNames(String[] userNames) {
4        String temp;
5        for (int i = 0; i < userNames.length; i++) {
6            for (int j = i + 1; j < userNames.length; j++) {
7                if (userNames[i].compareTo(userNames[j]) > 0) {
8                    temp = userNames[i];
9                    userNames[i] = userNames[j];
10                    userNames[j] = temp;
11                }
12            }
13        }
14        return userNames;
15    }
16 
17    public static void main(String[] args) {
18        String[] names = {"Ram", "Mohan", "Sohan", "Rita", "Anita", "Nita", "Shyam", "Mukund"};
19        System.out.println("Names before sort");
20        for (String n : names) {
21            System.out.print(" " + n);
22        }
23        String[] sortedNames = sortNames(names);
24        System.out.println("\nNames after sort (Sent name)");
25        for (String n : names) {
26            System.out.print(" " + n);
27        }
28        System.out.println("\nNames after sort (Received name)");
29        for (String n : sortedNames) {
30            System.out.print(" " + n);
31        }
32    }
33}