Use the varStatus attribute on your forEach tag and JSTL will manage an instance of a javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core. LoopTagStatus for you in the variable name you specify.
If you are willing to make this happen on the client side, you can do Zebra Striping with JQuery.
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