这里有很多乱七八糟的东西——人们建议非原始值的解决方案，尝试从基础上实现一些排序算法，给出涉及额外库的解决方案，炫耀一些俗套的解决方案等等。最初问题的答案是50/50。对于那些只想复制/粘贴的人:

// our initial int[] array containing primitives
int[] arrOfPrimitives = new int[]{1,2,3,4,5,6};

// we have to convert it into array of Objects, using java's boxing
Integer[] arrOfObjects = new Integer[arrOfPrimitives.length];
for (int i = 0; i < arrOfPrimitives.length; i++) 
    arrOfObjects[i] = new Integer(arrOfPrimitives[i]);

// now when we have an array of Objects we can use that nice built-in method
Arrays.sort(arrOfObjects, Collections.reverseOrder());

arrOfObjects现在是{6,5,4,3,2,1}。如果你有一个不是整数的数组——使用相应的对象而不是整数。

对于包含原语元素的数组，如果有org.apache.commons.lang(3)可供处置，则简单的反向数组(排序后)的方法是使用:

ArrayUtils.reverse(array);

首先，你需要使用以下命令对数组进行排序:

Collections.sort(myArray);

然后你需要使用以下命令将升序颠倒为降序:

Collections.reverse(myArray);

对于上面的讨论，这里有一个简单的示例，按降序对原始数组进行排序。

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[] nums = { 5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 3, 8, 6, 0 };
        Arrays.sort(nums);

        // reverse the array, just like dumping the array!
        // swap(1st, 1st-last) <= 1st: 0, 1st-last: nums.length - 1
        // swap(2nd, 2nd-last) <= 2nd: i++,  2nd-last: j--
        // swap(3rd, 3rd-last) <= 3rd: i++,  3rd-last: j--
        //
        for (int i = 0, j = nums.length - 1, tmp; i < j; i++, j--) {
            tmp = nums[i];
            nums[i] = nums[j];
            nums[j] = tmp;
        }

        // dump the array (for Java 4/5/6/7/8/9)
        for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
            System.out.println("nums[" + i + "] = " + nums[i]);
        }
    }
}

输出:

nums[0] = 9
nums[1] = 8
nums[2] = 7
nums[3] = 6
nums[4] = 5
nums[5] = 4
nums[6] = 3
nums[7] = 2
nums[8] = 1
nums[9] = 0

对于列表

Collections.sort(list, Collections.reverseOrder());

对于数组

Arrays.sort(array, Collections.reverseOrder());

有时我们练习一个例子是很好的，这里有一个完整的例子:

sortdesc.java

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
class sortdesc{
public static void main(String[] args){
       // int Array
       Integer[] intArray=new Integer[]{
                 new Integer(15),
                 new Integer(9),
                 new Integer(16),
                 new Integer(2),
                 new Integer(30)};

       // Sorting int Array in descending order
       Arrays.sort(intArray,Collections.reverseOrder());

       // Displaying elements of int Array
       System.out.println("Int Array Elements in reverse order:");
       for(int i=0;i<intArray.length;i++)
          System.out.println(intArray[i]);

       // String Array
       String[] stringArray=new String[]{"FF","PP","AA","OO","DD"};

       // Sorting String Array in descending order
       Arrays.sort(stringArray,Collections.reverseOrder());

       // Displaying elements of String Array
       System.out.println("String Array Elements in reverse order:");
       for(int i=0;i<stringArray.length;i++)
          System.out.println(stringArray[i]);}}

编译…

javac sortdec.java

叫它……

java sortdesc

输出

Int Array Elements in reverse order:
30
16
15
9
2
String Array Elements in reverse order:
PP
OO
FF
DD
AA

如果你想尝试字母数字数组…

//replace this line:
String[] stringArray=new String[]{"FF","PP","AA","OO","DD"};

//with this:
String[] stringArray=new String[]{"10FF","20AA","50AA"};

你会得到如下输出:

50AA
20AA
10FF

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