you can simply set up a var beforehand with the size of the list.
Personally I have always used:
bean:size id=foo collection=blah/
Look at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-bean.html#size for
the syntax that will solve your particular case.
Now to reference that you can just use
the LoopStatus for forEach (specified by the varStatus attribute) exposes the
following:
index (int) - position of the current item
count (int) - number of times thru the loop (starting with 1)
first (boolean) - indicator if this is the first iteration
last (boolean) - inidicator if this is the
