Sorting objects by multiple attributes (Java Multilevel Sorting using Apache Collections Framework)

The best way to do this is by using the ComparatorChain from the Apache Collections Framework.
You have to implement for every attribute a Comparator that you add to the Chain in the order you need. Now you can use the chain like a normal Comparator.

Here is how it looks like in code:

 package org.test.comparator;  
 public class Person {  
      public Person(String name, int age) {  
           this.name = name;  
           this.age = age;  
      }  
      public String name;  
      public Integer age;  
      @Override  
      public String toString() {  
           return "[" + name + "|" + age + "]";  
      }  
 }  

 package org.test.comparator;  
   
 import java.util.ArrayList;  
 import java.util.Collections;  
 import java.util.Comparator;  
 import java.util.List;  
   
 import org.apache.commons.collections.comparators.ComparatorChain;  
   
 public class TestComparatorChain {  
      public static void main(String[] args) {  
           List<Person> persons = new ArrayList<Person>();  
           persons.add(new Person("stan", 31));  
           persons.add(new Person("kyle", 22));  
           persons.add(new Person("stan", 11));  
           persons.add(new Person("kyle", 30));  
             
           Comparator<Person> comparatorName = new Comparator<Person>() {  
                @Override  
                public int compare(Person o1, Person o2) {  
                     return o1.name.compareToIgnoreCase(o2.name);  
                }  
           };  
             
           Comparator<Person> comparatorAge = new Comparator<Person>() {  
                @Override  
                public int compare(Person o1, Person o2) {  
                     return o1.age.compareTo(o2.age);  
                }  
           };  
             
           ComparatorChain chain = new ComparatorChain();  
           chain.addComparator(comparatorName);  
           chain.addComparator(comparatorAge);  
             
           System.out.println(persons);  
             
           Collections.sort(persons, chain);  
             
           System.out.println(persons);  
      }  
 }  

Resulting two lines:
[[stan|31], [kyle|22], [stan|11], [kyle|30]]
[[kyle|22], [kyle|30], [stan|11], [stan|31]]

The commons-collections-3.2.1.jar is with 575 kb quite big if you only want to use one class of it.