Reverse the words in Java

Java interview exercise on Strings, difficulty 1 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example, or cold in Interview mode with the example hidden; the tests run the moment you do.

Write reverseWords(s) that returns the words of s in reverse order, joined by single spaces. Words are separated by one or more whitespace characters; leading and trailing whitespace is ignored. An empty or blank string gives "".

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