Sorting HashMap by values [duplicate]

Answer 1

package com.naveen.hashmap;

import java.util.*;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

public class SortBasedonValues {

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        HashMap hm = new HashMap();
        hm.put("Naveen", 2);
        hm.put("Santosh", 3);
        hm.put("Ravi", 4);
        hm.put("Pramod", 1);
        Set> set = hm.entrySet();
        List> list = new ArrayList>(
                set);
        Collections.sort(list, new Comparator>() {
            public int compare(Map.Entry o1,
                    Map.Entry o2) {
                return o2.getValue().compareTo(o1.getValue());
            }
        });

        for (Entry entry : list) {
            System.out.println(entry.getValue());

        }

    }
}