title: Creating a List in EL
body: <p>Suppose I have a custom tag that takes a List of Strings:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ attribute name="thelist" type="java.util.List&amp;lt;java.lang.String&amp;gt;"
      required="true" %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I create this attribute in the jsp that calls the tag? I could use a scriptlet</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;tags:list thelist='&lt;%= java.util.Arrays.asList("blah","blah2") %&gt;' /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but is there any way to do this using Expression Language, since that seems to be preferred?</p>