Extension of the Ordered interface, expressing a priority ordering: PriorityOrdered objects are always applied before plain Ordered objects regardless of their order values.

When sorting a set of Ordered objects, PriorityOrdered objects and plain Ordered objects are effectively treated as two separate subsets, with the set of PriorityOrdered objects preceding the set of plain Ordered objects and with relative ordering applied within those subsets.

This is primarily a special-purpose interface, used within the framework itself for objects where it is particularly important to recognize prioritized objects first, potentially without even obtaining the remaining objects. A typical example: prioritized post-processors in a Spring org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext.