Strange UnsupportedOperationException when calling list.remove(0)

Question

I have this method which takes a varargs of Strings, creates a List out of it, and then tries to remove the first element of the list.

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Answer 1

Arrays.asList provides a List view of the array, BACKED by the array. And arrays are not resizable. Any attempt to change its size will throw an exception.