Collection or list as return ??

[Eddie]

Hellu there, Some time ago someone made a remark that it make no sense putting a "ORDER BY" in the where clause in the orion-ejb-jar.xml, as the finder methods of the home interface do return a Collection, which are not sorted by definition. Hmmm makes sence, but if I play around with it and put a "ORDER BY id ASC" or "ORDER BY id DESC" in the where clause in the orion-ejb-jar.xml, to fine tune some queries, it does  return sorted collections !!!! Howcome ?? Does the finder methods return a  sorted List as a J2EE feature, that is a subClass of a Collection, or is this just Orion. ?? The thing is that I like to optimize my queries, but if this feature isn't J2EE for example I will have a problem with the following upgrades if it's left out for some reason !! BTW: in the J2EE spec, in section 10.5.6 they only talk about the Collection data type.!! Some advise please ?? Eddie