The Guava ComparisonChain is a utility that provides a fluent API to write clean compareTo methods

ComparisonChain.java

public class Fruit implements Comparable<Fruit> {
 
  private String name;
  private String family;
  private int calories;
 
  @Override
  public int compareTo( Fruit otherFruit ) {
    return ComparisonChain.start()
      .compare( name, otherFruit.name )
      .compare( family, otherFruit.family )
      .compare( calories, otherFruit.calories )
      .result();
  }
}