+ core: simple util to transform java maps to scala maps when creating tags.

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+package kamon.util
+
+object JavaTags {
+
+  /**
+   *  Helper method to transform Java maps into Scala maps. Typically this will be used as a static import from
+   *  Java code that wants to use tags, as tags are defined as scala.collection.mutable.Map[String, String] and
+   *  creating them directly from Java is quite verbose.
+   */
+  def tagsFromMap(tags: java.util.Map[String, String]): Map[String, String] = {
+    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
+    tags.toMap
+  }
+}