Hi Charles,
> A few notes:
>
> 1) java.lang.Comparable is new in Java2. It's not there
> if you are running w/Java 1.1 (OK with Tomcat 3.x).
>
> 2) compareTo(), for Strings does a *lexical* comparison.
> Semantically, this code wants to know that the user
> is "admin", not that the user is lexically equivalent
> to "admin". Using equals() describes the operation
> semantically better than compareTo().
>
> 3) You should use:
> "admin".equals(user)
> That avoids a potential NullPointerException.
When can you get on of these? Or did you mean ClassCastException?
