//USER DEFINED CLASS WITH SPECIFIED ORDERING

//Konstantin Voevodski
//CS112A1 Spring 2008

//a user defined class which implements the Comparable interface
//the sort implementations given in the textbook will work
//with an array of Monkey objects


public class Monkey implements Comparable<Monkey>
{
	private String name;
	private int age;
	private String color;

	public Monkey(String name, int age, String color)
	{
		this.name = name;
		this.age = age;
		this.color = color;
	}

	public String toString()
      //return a String representation of this Monkey
      //print and println call the toString method of the Object
	{
		return(name + ", a " + color + " monkey of age " + age);
	}

	public int getAge()
	{
		return age;
	}

	public int compareTo(Monkey m)
	//a monkey with the smaller age is considered smaller
	//output is negative if this monkey is smaller than m
      //positive if this monkey is greater than m, and 0 otherwise, 
      //as required by specification
	{
		return(this.age - m.getAge());
	}
}