<p>How would I get the length of an <code>ArrayList</code> using a JSF EL expression? </p>

<pre><code>#{MyBean.somelist.length}
</code></pre>

<p>does not work.</p>

Yes, since some genius in the Java API creation committee decided that, even though certain classes have
```
size()
```
members or
```
length
```
attributes, they won't implement
```
getSize()
```
or
```
getLength()
```
which JSF and most other standards require, you can't do what you want.
There's a couple ways to do this.
One: add a function to your Bean that returns the length:
```
In class MyBean:
public int getSomelistLength() { return this.somelist.length; }

In your JSF page:
#{MyBean.somelistLength}
```
Two: If you're using Facelets (Oh, God, why aren't you using Facelets!), you can add the fn namespace and use the length function
```
In JSF page:
#{ fn:length(MyBean.somelist) }
```