java.util.Properties extending from HashMap<Object, Object> instead of HashMap<String, String>

From: Rakesh <rakesh.usenet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:14:53 -0700 (PDT)

I was curious if there is a reason why java.util.Properties extends
from HashMap<Object, Object> instead of HashMap<String, String>
(seems more intuitive to me).

A variation of that would be -
how do we get about converting Properties to Map<String, String> .
.

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