I seem to be using the wrong search terms for this in Google...
I have written a Generic Class for Many-To-Many Associations, but I\'m guessing this has already been don
Looks like Apache Commons Multimap might be useful.
EDIT: except it's one-to-many, not many-to-many. However, it still might be handy to use instead of your Map> and Map>, or as a reference.
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