How sort an ArrayList of HashMaps holding several key-value pairs each?

You can use the below solution to achieve it:

arrayListHashMap.sort(Comparator.comparing(m -> m.get("value"), Comparator.nullsLast(Comparator.naturalOrder())));

You need to implement a Comparator<HashMap<String, String>> or more generally Comparator<Map<String, String>> which just extracts the value assocated with the value key, then use Collections.sort. Sample code (with generalization for whatever key you want to sort on):

class MapComparator implements Comparator<Map<String, String>>
{
    private final String key;

    public MapComparator(String key)
    {
        this.key = key;
    }

    public int compare(Map<String, String> first,
                       Map<String, String> second)
    {
        // TODO: Null checking, both for maps and values
        String firstValue = first.get(key);
        String secondValue = second.get(key);
        return firstValue.compareTo(secondValue);
    }
}

...
Collections.sort(arrayListHashMap, new MapComparator("value"));