Sorting Java objects using multiple keys

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Guava is more elegant:

return ComparisonChain.start()
     .compare(d1.weight, d2.weight)
     .compare(d1.age, d2.age)
     .compare(d1.name, d2.name)
     .result();

Apache commons-lang has a similar construct, CompareToBuilder.

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