How do you get the first element in a collection in JSTL/EL? [duplicate]

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My container contains multiple widgets.

I'm looping over them and the widgetcode variable is set with the value of the last widget in the loop.

But what I really want is the first widget in the collection.

How do I get this without looping?

<c:choose>
    <c:when test="${fn:length(container.widgets) > 0}">
        <c:forEach items="${container.widgets}" var="widgetId" varStatus="status">
            <c:set var="widgetcode" value="/widget/<c:out value="${widgetId}"/>"/>
        </c:forEach>
    </c:when>
    <c:otherwise>
        <c:set var="widgetcode" value="/widget/000"/>
    </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

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<c:set var="widgetcode" value="${container.widgets[0]}"/>