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title: Welcome to the Apache Struts project
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    <h1>Apache Struts</h1>
    <p>Apache Struts is a free, open-source, MVC framework for creating elegant,
      modern Java web applications. It favors convention over configuration, is
      extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with plugins to support
      REST, AJAX and JSON.
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      <img src="img/download-icon.svg"> Download
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    <a href="primer.html" class="btn btn-info btn-large">
      <img src="img/primer-icon.svg"> Technology Primer
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        Read more in <a href="announce.html#a{{ site.release_date_short }}">Announcement</a> or in
        <a href="/docs/version-notes-{{ site.current_version_short }}.html">Version notes</a>
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        <h2>Google's Patch Reward program</h2>
        <p>During <a href="http://www.meetup.com/sfhtml5/">SFHTML5</a> Google announced that
          they extend their program to cover the Apache Struts project as well. Now you can earn
          money preparing patches for us!
          <a href="submitting-patches.html#patch-reward">read more</a>
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        <h2>Apache Struts 1</h2>
        <p><strong>End-Of-Life (EOL)</strong></p>
        <p>The Struts 1.x web framework has reached its end of life and is no longer officially supported.
          <a href="struts1eol-announcement.html">Read the announcement</a> or the official
          <a href="struts1eol-press.html">Press release</a>
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  <div class="col-md-12"><h5>Keep in touch: </h5>

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