code: @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
      public static <K, V> Map<K, V> map(Object o) {
  
          return (Map<K, V>)o;
      }
docs: Provides a wrapper to convert an object into a map that avoids warnings with Java 1.5 generic code.<p>
  
  @param <K> the type of keys maintained by the returned map
  @param <V> the type of mapped values
  @param o the object to be converted
  
  @return a {@link Map} of the required generic type