Struts 1.x End Of Life. Whats alternative?

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Struts 1.x End Of Life. Whats alternative?

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The Apache Struts Project Team announced End of Life (EOL) for Struts 1.x web framework. Struts was launched in the year 2000. It is only of the widely used web framework. It gave better control over writing UI and business logic code directly in to JSPs.

There is no urgent need for the Users to immediately switch over to other frameworks. Struts 1.x is stable but Struts team will not provide any security or hot fixes.

Those who are using Struts 1.x, consider switching to Struts 2. Migration is easier. If you consider to rewrite your application or start a new java web project then choose Spring or Struts2.

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