SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java

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Title: MET10-J. Follow the general contract when implementing the compareTo() method  
Author: David Neville Mar 29, 2009
Last Changed by: David Svoboda Aug 06, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email) https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/WzdGBQ
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SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard (1)
    Page: CTR57-CPP. Provide a valid ordering predicate
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    Page: Rule 06. Methods (MET)
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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Compara…
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    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/573.html
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