I found this on stack overflow. It's what Tilmann mentioned in the meeting today: create a new instance of Map and initialize it.
Map<String,String> test = new HashMap<String, String>() { { put (key1, value1); put (key2, value2); } }; Not quite as elegant as JSON or Ruby but it is Java... Craig L Russell Secretary, Apache Software Foundation c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo