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Type safety: Unchecked cast - Spring and Hibernate

Well, first of all, you're wasting memory with the new HashMap creation call. Your second line completely disregards the reference to this created hashmap, making it then available to the garbage collector. So, don't do that, use:
private Map<String, String> someMap = (HashMap<String, String>)getApplicationContext().getBean("someMap");
Secondly, the compiler is complaining that you cast the object to a HashMap without checking if it is a HashMap. But, even if you were to do:
if(getApplicationContext().getBean("someMap") instanceof HashMap) {
private Map<String, String> someMap = (HashMap<String, String>)getApplicationContext().getBean("someMap");}
You would probably still get this warning. The problem is, getBean returns Object, so it is unknown what the type is. Converting it to HashMap directly would not cause the problem with the second case (and perhaps there would not be a warning in the first case, I'm not sure how pedantic the Java compiler is with warnings for Java 5). However, you are converting it to a HashMap<String, String>.
HashMaps are really maps that take an object as a key and have an object as a value, HashMap<Object, Object> if you will. Thus, there is no guarantee that when you get your bean that it can be represented as a HashMap<String, String> because you could have HashMap<Date, Calendar> because the non-generic representation that is returned can have any objects.

If the code compiles, and you can execute String value = map.get("thisString"); without any errors, don't worry about this warning. But if the map isn't completely of string keys to string values, you will get a ClassCastException at runtime, because the generics cannot block this from happening in this case.

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