Backport 2f46af05ce2d43e19e0095680eb3a52fd904c774

src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/beans/introspect/MethodInfo.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2014, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, 2022, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -98,10 +98,7 @@ static List<Method> get(Class<?> type) {
 
     /**
      * A comparator that defines a total order so that methods have the same
-     * name and identical signatures appear next to each others. The methods are
-     * sorted in such a way that methods which override each other will sit next
-     * to each other, with the overridden method last - e.g. is Integer getFoo()
-     * placed before Object getFoo().
+     * name and identical signatures appear next to each others.
      **/
     private static final class MethodOrder implements Comparator<Method> {
 
@@ -132,18 +129,7 @@ public int compare(final Method a, final Method b) {
             }
             final Class<?> aret = a.getReturnType();
             final Class<?> bret = b.getReturnType();
-            if (aret == bret) {
-                return 0;
-            }
-
-            // Super type comes last: Integer, Number, Object
-            if (aret.isAssignableFrom(bret)) {
-                return 1;
-            }
-            if (bret.isAssignableFrom(aret)) {
-                return -1;
-            }
-            return aret.getName().compareTo(bret.getName());
+            return aret == bret ? 0 : aret.getName().compareTo(bret.getName());
         }
 
         static final MethodOrder instance = new MethodOrder();