Is there a best practice for writing maps literal style in Java?

Question

In short, if you want to write a map of e.g. constants in Java, which in e.g. Python and Javascript you would write as a literal,

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Answer 1

Here's another way, best suited for maps that won't be changing:

public class Whatever {
    private static Map map = new HashMap();

    static {
        map.put("A", "Apple");
        map.put("B", "Banana");
        // etc
    }
}