[ardit33]

Java is notorious as it has very clumsy syntax. Simple arraylist of dictionaries declaration looks like this:

ArrayList<Map<String,Object>> myArrayList = new ArrayList<Map<String,Object>>();

Could have been just:

ArrayList<Map<String,Object>> myArrayList = new();

or even better:

ArrayList<Map> = new(); <- if you don't care what the type of map is.

[blauditore]

As others have mentioned, there's the diamond operator which has been around since Java 7.

> if you don't care what the type of map is

You can use raw types, it works perfectly fine (just generates a compiler warning). For explicitly being unspecific, you can also use a type wildcard (`?`).

[kuschku]

That is almost literally what Java does.

ArrayList<Map> myArrayList = new ArrayList<>(); works already today.

[conwaysgame]

Note in Java8, you could just use:

ArrayList<Map<String,Object>> myArrayList = new ArrayList<>();

[shock]

The diamond operator is available since Java 7. Tripped me up too.