在这里加上我对几个不同场景的答案 对于数组

Arrays.sort(a, Comparator.reverseOrder());

FWIW列表

Lists.reverse(a);

任何及所有收集

Collections.reverse(a);

没有显式比较器:

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

使用显式比较器:

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

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

另一种选择可能是(对于数字!!)

将数组乘以-1 排序 再乘以-1

从字面上说:

array = -Arrays.sort(-array)

int数组降序排序的简单方法:

private static int[] descendingArray(int[] array) {
    Arrays.sort(array);
    int[] descArray = new int[array.length];
    for(int i=0; i<array.length; i++) {
        descArray[i] = array[(array.length-1)-i];
    }
    return descArray;
}

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。