A better way to do this without scriptlets?

Question

I have an object passed to the JSP through the request.setAttribute(). I have to get a Collection from that object and use it in my custom tag. The problem is that it isn't elegant as I would like it (still too much scriptlets).
The scriptlet code below already existed and there were loops done with scriptlets which my custom tag has replaced. But I am not sure of the most elegant way to replace the scriptlet code that was there while at the same time getting the Collection from an object from the request and having that Collection available in an efficient scope accessible by my custom tag.
We are not currently using JSTL but I could possibly go in that direction.
<% SomeObject o = (SomeObject)request.getAttribute("abc");
       Collection c = o.getCollection();
       //This line I added to the scriptlet to work with my custom tag
       pageContext.setAttribute("theCollection", c);
%>
<%-- This was done with a scriptlet before and now the custom tag below --%>
<mycustom:select optionsCollection="theCollection" scope="page" ... />TIA

Answer 1

I have an object passed to the JSP through the
request.setAttribute(). I have to get a Collection
from that object and use it in my custom tag. The
problem is that it isn't elegant as I would like it
(still too much scriptlets).
The scriptlet code below already existed and there
were loops done with scriptlets which my custom tag
has replaced. But I am not sure of the most elegant
way to replace the scriptlet code that was there
while at the same time getting the Collection from an
object from the request and having that Collection
available in an efficient scope accessible by my
custom tag.
We are not currently using JSTL but I could possibly
go in that direction.
<% SomeObject o =
(SomeObject)request.getAttribute("abc");
Collection c = o.getCollection();
//This line I added to the scriptlet to work
to work with my custom tag
pageContext.setAttribute("theCollection", c);
%>
<%-- This was done with a scriptlet before and now
the custom tag below --%>
<mycustom:select optionsCollection="theCollection"
scope="page" ... />TIAUse JSTL's c:set:
This gets the attribute named "abc" from the request, as if request.get("abc") was called, then calles the method getCollection() on the object retrieved, and stores it in the page scope (pageContext)
<c:set var="theCollection value="${requestScope.abc.collection}" scope="page"/>
<mycustom:select optionsCollection="theCollection" scope="page" ... />