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Adds support for Java 8 - to allow use the latest features of the language with Struts actions.

Usage

You must define it as a dependency in pom.xml and exclude the old version of ASM used with xwork-core, see a code snippet below:

If you don't use Maven to manage the dependencies, please be sure to replace asm.jar and asm-commons.jar with appropriated ASM 5 versions.

Supported Java 8 features

  • Lambda Expressions in actions when using them with the Convention plugin