Generic sort method

Question

my method take any collection class as parameter and sort the list and return that sorted class.
Here is my code
public static <T extends Comparable<? super T>> Collection sort(Collection<T> col)  {
        Collections.sort(col);
        return col;
    }while compiling its getting following error:
cannot find symbol method sort (java.util.Collection<T>)can any one tell me what is the wrong in my code.

Answer 1

victorygls wrote:
no, thats not a wrong, sort method is in Collections class onlyWait, sorry, I thought you were calling Collection.sort(...) without the s.
But if you look at the Collections class, you will see that there is no sort(Collection) method. There are a couple of sort(List) methods though.