Answer by Alireza Fattahi for How to sort List of objects by some property

As mentioned you can sort by:

• Making your object implement Comparable
• Or pass a Comparator to Collections.sort

If you do both, the Comparable will be ignored and Comparator will be used. This helps that the value objects has their own logical Comparable which is most reasonable sort for your value object, while each individual use case has its own implementation.