How do I address unchecked cast warnings?

Question

Eclipse is giving me a warning of the following form:

Type safety: Unchecked cast from Object to HashMap

This is from a call to

Answer 1

Solution: Disable this warning in Eclipse. Don't @SuppressWarnings it, just disable it completely.

Several of the "solutions" presented above are way out of line, making code unreadable for the sake of suppressing a silly warning.