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

Java7 suppose to implement following syntax:

Map = {
    "key1": "value",
    "key2": "value",
    "key3": "value",
    "key4": "value"
};

However now you're forced to use solutions proposed by Jorn or Tony Ennis.