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# Java 8 Support Plugin

This plugin was dropped in Struts 2.5.5 as Struts Core is using ASM5 now which supports Java8. 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:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.struts.xwork</groupId>
        <artifactId>xwork-core</artifactId>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>asm</groupId>
                <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>asm</groupId>
                <artifactId>asm-commons</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

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