从Steve的回答开始，三元操作符可以使用:

public int compareTo(Person other) {
    int f = firstName.compareTo(other.firstName);
    int l = lastName.compareTo(other.lastName);
    return f != 0 ? f : l != 0 ? l : Integer.compare(age, other.age);
}

如果用户有多种方式对人排序，你也可以在某个地方设置多个comparator常量。大多数排序操作和排序集合都以比较器作为参数。

//here threshold,buyRange,targetPercentage are three keys on that i have sorted my arraylist 
final Comparator<BasicDBObject> 

    sortOrder = new Comparator<BasicDBObject>() {
                    public int compare(BasicDBObject e1, BasicDBObject e2) {
                        int threshold = new Double(e1.getDouble("threshold"))
                        .compareTo(new Double(e2.getDouble("threshold")));
                        if (threshold != 0)
                            return threshold;

                        int buyRange = new Double(e1.getDouble("buyRange"))
                        .compareTo(new Double(e2.getDouble("buyRange")));
                        if (buyRange != 0)
                            return buyRange;

                        return (new Double(e1.getDouble("targetPercentage")) < new Double(
                                e2.getDouble("targetPercentage")) ? -1 : (new Double(
                                        e1.getDouble("targetPercentage")) == new Double(
                                                e2.getDouble("targetPercentage")) ? 0 : 1));
                    }
                };
                Collections.sort(objectList, sortOrder);

您应该实现Comparable <Person>。假设所有字段都不为空(为了简单起见)，年龄是int型，比较排名是第一，最后，年龄，compareTo方法非常简单:

public int compareTo(Person other) {
    int i = firstName.compareTo(other.firstName);
    if (i != 0) return i;

    i = lastName.compareTo(other.lastName);
    if (i != 0) return i;

    return Integer.compare(age, other.age);
}

如果我们必须基于多个字段对Person对象进行排序，则相同的代码实现在这里。

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;

public class Person {

private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private int age;

public String getFirstName() {
    return firstName;
}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
}

public String getLastName() {
    return lastName;
}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {
    this.lastName = lastName;
}

public int getAge() {
    return age;
}

public void setAge(int age) {
    this.age = age;
}

public Person(String firstName, String lastName, int age) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;
    this.age = age;
}


static class PersonSortingComparator implements Comparator<Person> {

    @Override
    public int compare(Person person1, Person person2) {

        // for first name comparison
        int firstNameCompare = person1.getFirstName().compareTo(person2.getFirstName());

        // for last name comparison
        int lastNameCompare = person1.getLastName().compareTo(person2.getLastName());

        // for last name comparison
        int ageCompare = person1.getAge() - person2.getAge();

        // Now comparing
        if (firstNameCompare == 0) {
            if (lastNameCompare == 0) {
                return ageCompare;
            }
            return lastNameCompare;
        }
        return firstNameCompare;
    }
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Person person1 = new Person("Ajay", "Kumar", 27);
    Person person2 = new Person("Ajay","Gupta", 23);
    Person person3 = new Person("Ajay","Kumar", 22);


    ArrayList<Person> persons = new ArrayList<>();
    persons.add(person1);
    persons.add(person2);
    persons.add(person3);


    System.out.println("Before Sorting:\n");
    for (Person person : persons) {
        System.out.println(person.firstName + " " + person.lastName + " " + person.age);
    }

    Collections.sort(persons, new PersonSortingComparator());

    System.out.println("After Sorting:\n");
    for (Person person : persons) {
        System.out.println(person.firstName + " " + person.lastName + " " + person.age);
    }
}

}

要连续排序多个字段，请尝试ComparatorChain

A ComparatorChain is a Comparator that wraps one or more Comparators in sequence. The ComparatorChain calls each Comparator in sequence until either 1) any single Comparator returns a non-zero result (and that result is then returned), or 2) the ComparatorChain is exhausted (and zero is returned). This type of sorting is very similar to multi-column sorting in SQL, and this class allows Java classes to emulate that kind of behaviour when sorting a List. To further facilitate SQL-like sorting, the order of any single Comparator in the list can >be reversed. Calling a method that adds new Comparators or changes the ascend/descend sort after compare(Object, Object) has been called will result in an UnsupportedOperationException. However, take care to not alter the underlying List of Comparators or the BitSet that defines the sort order. Instances of ComparatorChain are not synchronized. The class is not thread-safe at construction time, but it is thread-safe to perform multiple comparisons after all the setup operations are complete.