Need to sort two vectors at the same time! please help!

Question

I have
vectorA: 2 4 9 1 7 6 8
vectorB: two four nine one seven six eight
i want to sort these two vectors in parallel
what is the best way?
i could just do Collection.sort(vectorA) and get
1 2 4 6 7 8 9
but i want the vectorB to have a corresponding order
please help!!
thanks

Answer 1

public class Pair implements Comparable {
private int value;
private String name;
public int getValue() {
return this.value;
public void setValue(int value) {
this.value = value;
public String getName() {
return this.name;
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
public int compareTo(Object o) {
Pair that = (Pair) o;
return this.value - that.value;
place both in a Collection (vector is a bad choice if you are going to do sorting LinkedList is better) the Collections.sort method will sort
according to the compareTo method.