Hashtable is an obsolete collection v1, now since v2 offers HashMap with same or better
functionality. Please review, almost all code was already moved, so only a few changes. That is not the issue,
but I found notices that some (ugly big) helper classes had to be created in past
to compensate missing Hashtable's functionality. I'd like input if we can remove some of them.
look for //FIX: if these commits
Signed-off-by: Marek Otahal <markotahal@gmail.com>