This class gets ride of those annoying eclipse warnings for type safety when you have an api like hibernate query, which wasn't prepared to work with Java generics.

gistfile1.java

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.RandomAccess;

public class CollectionUtils {
    public static <E> List<E> typeSafeCopy(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") List list, Class<E> clazz) {
		List<E> returnList = (list instanceof RandomAccess) ? new ArrayList<E>(list.size()) : new LinkedList<E>();
		
		@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
		Iterator iterator = list.iterator();
		
		while(iterator.hasNext()) {
			Object o = iterator.next();
			returnList.add(clazz.cast(o));
		}
		
		return returnList;
	}
}