A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
The java.util.logging.Level class has an intrinsic ranking based off of the intValue() associated with any instance.

In an oversight, however, this class fails to implement Comparable<Level>.

It would be trivial, just a few lines of code, to modify this class to support that interface. In fact, here is the code:

public int compareTo(Level other) {
    if (other == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("other == null");
    
    return this.intValue() - other.intValue();
}

This ranking should be used in

JUSTIFICATION :
I have an application (a log file reviewer) that needs to prioritize LogRecords for viewing purposes.

Having Level implement Comparable<Level> would solve all of this.

By the way, is there a link to the 1.6 (beta at this point) javadocs? Maybe you guys have already fixed this in 1.6 but I can't tell.