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package org.apache.hadoop.util;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
/**
* A wrapper class to maven's ComparableVersion class, to comply
* with maven's version name string convention
*/
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public abstract class VersionUtil {
/**
* Compares two version name strings using maven's ComparableVersion class.
*
* @param version1
* the first version to compare
* @param version2
* the second version to compare
* @return a negative integer if version1 precedes version2, a positive
* integer if version2 precedes version1, and 0 if and only if the two
* versions are equal.
*/
public static int compareVersions(String version1, String version2) {
ComparableVersion v1 = new ComparableVersion(version1);
ComparableVersion v2 = new ComparableVersion(version2);
return v1.compareTo(v2);
}
}