Sort order of results in UOW Conformed Query ??

We would like to know what is the expected behavior when a query with ascending ordering or descending ordering is run with UOW conformed.
We know for sure that SQL generated and submit to the database with ORDER BY CLAUSES (which get the data in the database and sorted properly)
However, with a confirm query, the database result will in turn, combine selected objects in the UNIT OF WORK.
Will the combined collection of object be sorted in the prescribed ordering ?
For example:
If in UOW we have some uncommitted CAT object CAT-9, and CAT- 5
In Database we return CAT-1, CAT-3, CAT-7 sorted in ascending order
Will toplink return after the UOW conformed query, a collection in the following order ?
CAT-1, CAT-3, CAT-5, CAT-7, CAT-9 ???
Please advice.
Thank you in advance.

No, any new objects that conform to the query will be added to the end of the result set, so may not match the query's sort order.
If you need the conformed results to maintain ordering you can either,
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- Use a TreeSet as the query resultCollectionClass to sort the query results.

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