besides using Collections to get a synchronized version of a `TreeMap`, another approach to get a output according to sorted key is to do the reverse using a helper class.

for example, using ObjectMapper

 //set the ordering mapper.configure(SerializationFeature.ORDER_MAP_ENTRIES_BY_KEYS, true);

then to get the output or transform to another object, using the `mapper`

 //output mapper.writeValueAsString(pairs)  //transform mapper.convertValue(pairs, Map.class)