int i;
LinkedList list = new LinkedList();
// Create a list of students, together with their room numbers.
list.add(new Student("Fred Bloggs",10));
list.add(new Student("Adam Smith",20));
list.add(new Student("Gordon Bennett",31));
list.add(new Student("Raquel Welsh",42));
list.add(new Student("Meg Ryan",53));
list.add(new Student("Julia Roberts",60));
list.add(new Student("Dopy",7));
list.add(new Student("Sleepy",8));
list.add(new Student("Snow White",9));
// Sort the list
Collections.sort(list);
// Create a temporary student with no name, just room 42
// (since the compareTo method is only looking at the room number)...
Student s = new Student(" ",42);
// get the index of who is staying at room 42
i = Collections.binarySearch(list,s);
// and retrieve the student from the list
Student who = (Student) list.get(i);
// Print out who is actually staying at room 42
System.out.println("The student staying in room 42 is :"+who.getName());