Java APIs

Hello,

I feel a dilemma with the following code: generics are of no use to ObjectInputStream.readObject() ...

static HashMap<Integer,Character> map= new HashMap<Integer,Character>();
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new BufferedInputStream
					(new FileInputStream("myFile")));
map = (HashMap)ois.readObject(); // [unchecked] unchecked conversion
map.put(new Integer(nr), new Character(c));

... but after removing the generics from the HashMap definition, now HashMap.put(...) asks for them.

static HashMap map= new HashMap();
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new BufferedInputStream
					(new FileInputStream("myFile")));
map = (HashMap)ois.readObject();
map.put(new Integer(nr), new Character(c)); // [unchecked] unchecked call to put(K,V)

A cast like

map = (HashMap<Integer,Character>)ois.readObject();

is not possible (G. Bracha's Tutorial, 7.2).
Is there still a way to satisfy the compiler?

Greetings
J�rg