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BJP5 Exercise 14.21: maxToTop

Language/Type: Java Collections Stacks and Queues
Author: Marty Stepp (on 2019/09/19)

Write a method called maxToTop that takes a stack of integers as a parameter and moves the largest value in the stack to the top of the stack, leaving all other values in their original order. You may assume that the stack does not contain any duplicates. For example, if a stack s stores [27, 5, 42, -11, 0, 19], the call of maxToTop(s) should change it to store [27, 5, -11, 0, 19, 42]. If the stack is empty, your method should not change it. Use one queue as auxiliary storage.

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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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