Java Method to sort a Map based on Values

It very frequent that a programmer needs the below snippet to sort the map based on values rather than keys:

private static HashMap sortByValues(HashMap map) {
       List list = new LinkedList(map.entrySet());
       // Defined Custom Comparator here
       Collections.sort(list, new Comparator() {
            public int compare(Object o2, Object o1) {
               return ((Comparable) ((Map.Entry) (o1)).getValue())
                  .compareTo(((Map.Entry) (o2)).getValue());
            }
       });
       HashMap sortedHashMap = new LinkedHashMap();
       for (Iterator it = list.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
              Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) it.next();
              sortedHashMap.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
       }
       return sortedHashMap;
}