Collections framework provide Collections.sort(List) method which sort String elements in natural or chronological order or ascending order.

For descending order use Collections.reverse(List) method to reverse order of complete list elements.

Related Topics:

How to Sort By Comparable Interface in Ascending and Descending Order : Java

How to sort object by Comparator interface in ascending and descending order : JAVA

Java : Comparable Vs Comparator

Points to Remember:

• Below are classes  implements  Comparable interface which provide a natural ordering for a class  sorted automatically.
• If sorting a list of the elements which do not  implement Comparable , Collections.sort(list) method will throw ClassCastException. Similarly, Collections.sort(list, comparator ) will throw ClassCastException if you try to sort a list whose elements cannot be compared to another using Comparator.

                                 Classes Implementing Comparable

Class	Natural Ordering
Byte	Signed numerical
Character	Unsigned numerical
Long	Signed numerical
Integer	Signed numerical
Short	Signed numerical
Double	Signed numerical
Float	Signed numerical
BigInteger	Signed numerical
BigDecimal	Signed numerical
Boolean	Boolean.FALSE < Boolean.TRUE
File	System-dependent lexicographic on path name
String	Lexicographic
Date	Chronological
CollationKey	Locale-specific lexicographic

Example :
In below example sorting list of names in ascending order by Collections.sort(list). As shown above String Class by default having Comparable interface which will sort elements in Ascending or Chronological order.

For Descending order used Collections.reverse(List) reverse method which will reverse list of sorted list.

package sorting;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

public class SortData {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String [] empArr={"Saurabh","Gaurav","Shailesh","Ankur","Ranjith","Ramesh"};
		//Convert Array to LIst
		List empList=Arrays.asList(empArr);
		//Print Assigned Values Before Sort;
		System.out.println("********Print Employee List Before Sort********");
		printArrayList(empList);

		//Sort List in Ascending order by collections api
		Collections.sort(empList);
		System.out.println("\n********Print Employee List in Ascending Order********");
		printArrayList(empList);

		//Sort List in Descending order by collections api
		Collections.reverse(empList);
		System.out.println("\n********Print Employee List in Descending Order********");
		printArrayList(empList);

	}

	private static void printArrayList(List empList)
	{
		for(String emp:empList)
		{
			System.out.println(emp);
		}
	}

}

Output:

********Print Employee List Before Sort********
Saurabh
Gaurav
Shailesh
Ankur
Ranjith
Ramesh

********Print Employee List in Ascending Order********
Ankur
Gaurav
Ramesh
Ranjith
Saurabh
Shailesh

********Print Employee List in Descending Order********
Shailesh
Saurabh
Ranjith
Ramesh
Gaurav
Ankur

Reference :

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/interfaces/order.html