Initialize List the way Arrays are initialized

If you want a fixed size list, wherein you don’t want to add/remove elements into it then probably this trick will save some line of code:

Consider this:


List<Character> vowels = new ArrayList<Character>();
vowels.add('a');
vowels.add('e');
vowels.add('i');
vowels.add('o');
vowels.add('u');



This could have also be written as:


 List<Character> vowels = Arrays.asList('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u');


Trying to add/remove elements from this list will result in an UnsupportedOperationException exception

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