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 <body>
 <chapter name="Who We Are" href="whoWeAre">

 <section name="The Meritocracy" href="meritocracy">
 <p>All work on Struts is contributed by volunteers whose only motivation
 is to help make Struts work even better, both for themselves and for rest of the community.</p>
 <p>All contributions are welcome, and may be discussed and posted on the mailing lists.
 The final decision of what becomes part of the official distribution is made by a group of
 <a href="#committers">Committers</a>. For more about Meritocracy, see the
 <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html">Management page</a> on the
 Apache Jarakta Website.</p>
 </section>

 <section name="Source Code Contributors" href="contributors.source">
 <ul>
 <li>Arun M. Thomas</li>
 <li>Chris Audley</li>
 <li>Craig R. McClanahan</li>
 <li>David Geary</li>
 <li>Don Clasen</li>
 <li>Florent Carpentier</li>
 <li>Jeff Hutchison</li>
 <li>Jimmy Larsson</li>
 <li>Luis Arias</li>
 <li>Marius Barduta</li>
 <li>Martin Cooper</li>
 <li>Mike Schachter</li>
 <li>Niall Pemberton</li>
 <li>Oleg V Alexeev</li>
 <li>Ralph Schaer</li>
 <li>Rob Leland</li>
 <li>Sean Kelly</li>
 <li>Ted Husted</li>
 </ul>
 </section>

 <section name="User Guide Contributors" href="contributors.documentation">
 <ul>
 <li>Chris Assenza</li>
 <li>Craig R. McClanahan</li>
 <li>David Geary</li>
 <li>dIon Gillard</li>
 <li>Ed Burns</li>
 <li>Eric Wu</li>
 <li>John Rousseau</li>
 <li>John Ueltzhoeffer</li>
 <li>Larry McCay</li>
 <li>Martin Cooper</li>
 <li>Matthias Kerkhoff</li>
 <li>Mike Schachter</li>
 <li>Paul Runyan</li>
 <li>Robert Hayden</li>
 <li>Stanley Santiago</li>
 <li>Ted Husted</li>
 <li>Wong Kok Kai</li>
 </ul>
 </section>

 <section name="Active Committers" href="committers">
 <ul>
 <li><b>Craig R. McClanahan</b></li> (craigmcc at apache.org)
 <li><b>Michael Schachter</b></li>   (mschachter at apache.org)
 <li><b>Ted Husted</b></li>          (husted at apache.org)
 <li><b>Rob Leland</b></li>          (rleland at apache.org)
 <li><b>Vincent Massol</b></li>      (vmassol at apache.org)
 <li><b>Cedric Dumoulin</b></li>     (cedric.dumoulin at lifl.fr)
 <li><b>Martin Cooper</b></li>       (martinc at apache.org)
 <li><b>David Winterfeldt</b></li>   (dwinterfeldt at apache.org)
 <li><b>Oleg Alexeev</b></li>        (oalexeev at apache.org)
 </ul>
 </section>

 <section name="Emeritus Committers" href="comitters.emeritus">
 <ul>
 <li>David Geary</li>
 <li>Luis Arias</li>
 <li>Pierre Delilse</li>
 </ul>
 </section>

 <section name="More About Us" href="about">

 <h3><a name="craigmcc">Craig R. McClanahan -- Committer</a></h3>

 <p>I've been involved with servlet and JSP technology since around 1998.  It
 started out that I needed a way to build some web applications for several
 projects, and liked Java a lot better than the alternatives.  I also liked the
 price tag of open source software, and started using Apache JServ -- later on,
 getting involved in the project (like many people, I was whining about the
 twelve months it took to get from version 0.9 to version 1.0, and my son said
 "Dad, you know Java -- go help them finish it!" -- so I did :-).</p>

 <p>For quite a while, I was participating a lot on the JSP-INTEREST and
 SERVLET-INTEREST <a href="http://archives.java.sun.com">mailing lists</a>, especially on
 the topic of good architectures for web applications.  I was disgusted with the
 hash that many beginners created when they used (or abused) scriptlets in JSP
 pages, and built (for my former employer) a pretty comprehensive framework that
 could be considered ("Struts 0.01 without the custom tags").  It was
 proprietary code, but I was able to describe the concepts, and there started to
 be a feeling on the lists that this "Model 2" thing was pretty cool -- but
 there were no good examples to look at, so it was mostly hand waving types of
 discussions.</p>

 <p>Over the same time period, I got involved as an individual contributor in the
 <a href="http://java.sun.com/jcp">Java Community Process</a>, and joined the expert group
 that defined the servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 specs.  Sun was impressed enough to
 offer me a job as the technical lead on the team within Sun (currently five
 other individuals) that works on <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat">Tomcat</a>  --
 the architecture for Catalina, which is the servlet container part of Tomcat
 4.0, is also mine -- so I am in the really nice position of getting paid to
 work on open source software :-).  And, participate on the expert groups for
 Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2.  And, speak at various conferences, including
 ApacheCon and JavaOne.  And, talk to groups within Sun about using Struts and
 JSP/servlet technology.  And ... (there's some really interesting things being
 considered for the future).</p>

 <p>The original design of what came to be Struts has been in my head for a long
 time, since those interesting mailing list discussions, but the first version
 of the actual code was written on my laptop on a Memorial Day weekend vacation
 trip (end of May, 2000) to the Oregon coast -- in between watching the surf and
 having the house shaken by a windstorm at night.  Since then, it has gathered
 attention and popularity as we approach our first official release, and it
 delights me to see my "baby" grow up so well :-).  Of course, it is no longer
 just me -- there have been incredible numbers of good ideas from all over, and
 a peek at the TODO list for 1.1 says that even more good stuff is coming in the
 future.</p>

 <p>One motivation factor was <a href="http://www.servlets.com/soapbox/problems-jsp.html">
 Jason Hunter's</a> article about the Problems with JSP. Jason and I get along
 fine, even though we have different preferences about presentation
 technologies.  Besides being the author of a very popular book about servlets,
 with a second edition coming soon, Jason is also the representative for the
 Apache Software Foundation on the Executive Committe of the Java Community
 Process.</p>

 <p>Personally, I live in Portland, Oregon (even though my team at Sun is mostly in
 Cupertino, CA -- staying here was part of the job deal :-).  I like to support
 Oregon sports teams (Oregon State Beavers, Oregon Ducks, Portland Trailblazers)
 and work on cool software.</p>

 <p>I figured out I was getting pretty old when I realized that 2000 was the 25th
 year I had been paid to work in some aspect of software development :-).  I've
 got a son who is a full-time software developer (primarily in PHP so far, but
 I'm going to corrupt him with Java eventually :-), and a daughter in college.
 I'll happily let the other committers speak for themselves.</p>

 <h3><a name="mschachter">Mike Schachter -- Committer</a></h3>

 <p>I'm currently a student of computer
 science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
 I've been working at HP Middleware, formerly
 Bluestone Software for 3 years programming in
 Java and recently J2EE technologies.  I'm a full
 time worker from September until April and a student
 and part time worker from April until August.
 In my spare time I've been known to run monkey-knife
 fights in a shady south philly warehouse.  Err...
 I mean... nothing.</p>

 <h3><a name="husted">Ted Husted -- Committer</a></h3>

 <p>My primary interest in Struts is to put it to work writing lots of
 real-life Web applications:-) To do that effectively means having good
 documentation and code samples at my fingertips, so that's been my focus
 with the Struts product so far.</p>

 <p>I've been writing software for hire since 1984, but only recently jumped
 on the Java bandwagon. My initial interest was with electronic
 publishing, and started by converting my various print projects to
 electronic media. The "Information Superhighway" was still the private
 stomping ground of Universities and government agencies then. The rest
 of us had to make do with diskettes and bulletin boards.</p>

 <p>Between 1985 and 1994, I created and marketed several software products
 for publishing on disk, the most popular being "Dart" and "Iris". In
 1992, Dart was awarded the Digital Quill for software excellence,
 featured in PC Magazine (February 1992), and bundled with McGraw Hill's
 bookset,"Paperless Publishing" by Colin Hayes (McGraw Hill 1994). Dart
 won a second Digital Quill in 1993. Several titles that used Iris for a
 publishing system have also won awards and been widely distributed,
 including "Hermitville USA." I was also fortunate to find kindred souls
 on CompuServe and America Online, who helped me pioneer resources areas
 there in 1993 and 1994 for the nascent electronic publishing industry.</p>

 <p>I finally cut loose on the Internet in 1995, launching Epub News, an
 electronic newspage about electronic publishing. After taking on several
 private contracts, I opened the Husted dot Com Website (www.husted.com)
 in 1996. I've drifted away from electronic books, but have noticed that
 several products are now making their way into the consumer mainstream
 -- as usual, I was twenty minutes into the future:-)</p>

 <p>My favorite all-time project is the Hitchhikers Guide to Science
 Fiction. This was one of my earliest hypertext projects (it started as a
 print-book idea), and I had a lot of fun bringing it forward onto the
 Web. (Now, if I only had time to bring it current and dress it up!)</p>

 <p>My favorite all-time client is is WXXI Public Broadcasting Council,
 where I've served as the station's Webmaster. WXXI provides public
 broadcasting services for television and radio, and we are working to do
 the same online. Along with providing companion Web sites for every WXXI
 production, we stream both our AM and FM signals, in both Real and
 QuickTime, with online archives in the works. It's a long journey, but
 we've taken the first steps. I'm responsible for most of the regular
 updates to the site, and much of the overall layout and design. We're
 grateful to have won the PBS award for best Web site in our market for
 two years running.</p>

 <p>Our most ambitious projects at WXXI have been Spring Marketplace 2000
 and the NY Election Finder. For Spring Marketplace, we put our annual
 auction fully online for simultaneous telephone and Website bidding. On
 NY Election, we offered not only the usual election-finder application,
 but collected voter registration records from around the state, so
 people could also check their registration status and polling place. I
 developed the Web-enabled database applications for both projects.</p>

 <p>Currently, I'm expanding the WXXI online auction software into a
 complete package for hosting online auctions as fund-raisers; this is
 to be an open-source project called Gavel, and, of course, is
 based on Struts. </p>

 <h3><a name="cedric">Cedric Dumoulin -- Committer</a></h3>

 <p>As a dreamer / researcher I have thought a lot about a framework like Struts.
 But, as a lazy developer I have first checked what already exists, and I have
 found Struts. Struts goals fulfilled nearly all I needed for my (now old)
 portal project, except the capability to reuse and assemble easily pieces of
 pages or components. So, I have proposed the Components framework. This
 framework can be seen as a superset of the Templates tag library contributed
 by David Geary, and contains lot of interesting features.</p>

 <p>From a professional point of view, I have a Ph.D. in computer science. I have
 worked for 3 years in the R&amp;D department of a worldwide company developing
 Internet banking solutions. I am now a researcher at a university, and work
 on European research projects. My main research interest is WWW, Distributed
 Systems and Object Oriented Design. When developing code, I always try to
 first propose reusable pieces of code.</p>

 <h3><a name="martinc">Martin Cooper -- Committer</a></h3>

 <p>Currently, I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Tumbleweed Communications,
 working on the Messaging Management System. Early last year (2000), I was
 working on the architecture for a new web-based administration system for
 the product, and headed in the direction of servlets and JSP. I joined the
 JSP-INTEREST and SERVLET-INTEREST mailing lists to see what was going on in
 those respective areas.</p>

 <p>Before too long, some interesting discussions started up around the topic
 of Model 2 architectures. Model 2 sounded like the right way to go about
 things, and I followed those discussions closely. I was, however, still
 looking for a "leg up" - something to give me that core on which to build.</p>

 <p>Then, in May, I saw a post to JSP-INTEREST from Craig McClanahan entitled
 something like "New Jakarta-Struts Subproject", and describing Struts, and
 his vision for it. I hopped right over to the Jakarta web site and signed
 up for the mailing list. Before long, I realised this was exactly what I
 had been looking for.</p>

 <p>Now, a year or so later, we have a team of people, on which I am the
 technical lead, just finishing up our web-based administration system as
 Struts reaches its 1.0 release. And I am still firmly convinced that I made
 the right decision in going with Struts in the first place.</p>

 <p>Like anyone else, my first postings to the struts-user list were questions
 to help me understand how to do things, and why Struts is the way it is.
 Over time, reading the lists and also the source code, and working on my
 own fairly large web application, I came to the point where I could answer
 questions too. Now, I'm glad to be able to give something back to the
 Struts community by helping others understand, and also by contributing
 ideas and code to help make Struts even better than it already is.</p>

 </section></chapter>

   <p>Next: <a href="../index.html">Struts Home</a></p>

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	<document url="./resources.xml">
	<properties>
	<author>Ted Husted</author>
	<title>The Struts User's Guide - Who We Are</title>
	</properties>
	<body>
	<chapter name="Who We Are" href="whoWeAre">

	<section name="The Meritocracy" href="meritocracy">
	<p>All work on Struts is contributed by volunteers whose only motivation
	is to help make Struts work even better, both for themselves and for rest of the community.</p>
	<p>All contributions are welcome, and may be discussed and posted on the mailing lists.
	The final decision of what becomes part of the official distribution is made by a group of
	<a href="#committers">Committers</a>. For more about Meritocracy, see the
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html">Management page</a> on the
	Apache Jarakta Website.</p>
	</section>

	<section name="Source Code Contributors" href="contributors.source">
	<ul>
	<li>Arun M. Thomas</li>
	<li>Chris Audley</li>
	<li>Craig R. McClanahan</li>
	<li>David Geary</li>
	<li>Don Clasen</li>
	<li>Florent Carpentier</li>
	<li>Jeff Hutchison</li>
	<li>Jimmy Larsson</li>
	<li>Luis Arias</li>
	<li>Marius Barduta</li>
	<li>Martin Cooper</li>
	<li>Mike Schachter</li>
	<li>Niall Pemberton</li>
	<li>Oleg V Alexeev</li>
	<li>Ralph Schaer</li>
	<li>Rob Leland</li>
	<li>Sean Kelly</li>
	<li>Ted Husted</li>
	</ul>
	</section>

	<section name="User Guide Contributors" href="contributors.documentation">
	<ul>
	<li>Chris Assenza</li>
	<li>Craig R. McClanahan</li>
	<li>David Geary</li>
	<li>dIon Gillard</li>
	<li>Ed Burns</li>
	<li>Eric Wu</li>
	<li>John Rousseau</li>
	<li>John Ueltzhoeffer</li>
	<li>Larry McCay</li>
	<li>Martin Cooper</li>
	<li>Matthias Kerkhoff</li>
	<li>Mike Schachter</li>
	<li>Paul Runyan</li>
	<li>Robert Hayden</li>
	<li>Stanley Santiago</li>
	<li>Ted Husted</li>
	<li>Wong Kok Kai</li>
	</ul>
	</section>

	<section name="Active Committers" href="committers">
	<ul>
	<li><b>Craig R. McClanahan</b></li> (craigmcc at apache.org)
	<li><b>Michael Schachter</b></li> (mschachter at apache.org)
	<li><b>Ted Husted</b></li> (husted at apache.org)
	<li><b>Rob Leland</b></li> (rleland at apache.org)
	<li><b>Vincent Massol</b></li> (vmassol at apache.org)
	<li><b>Cedric Dumoulin</b></li> (cedric.dumoulin at lifl.fr)
	<li><b>Martin Cooper</b></li> (martinc at apache.org)
	<li><b>David Winterfeldt</b></li> (dwinterfeldt at apache.org)
	<li><b>Oleg Alexeev</b></li> (oalexeev at apache.org)
	</ul>
	</section>

	<section name="Emeritus Committers" href="comitters.emeritus">
	<ul>
	<li>David Geary</li>
	<li>Luis Arias</li>
	<li>Pierre Delilse</li>
	</ul>
	</section>

	<section name="More About Us" href="about">

	<h3><a name="craigmcc">Craig R. McClanahan -- Committer</a></h3>

	<p>I've been involved with servlet and JSP technology since around 1998. It
	started out that I needed a way to build some web applications for several
	projects, and liked Java a lot better than the alternatives. I also liked the
	price tag of open source software, and started using Apache JServ -- later on,
	getting involved in the project (like many people, I was whining about the
	twelve months it took to get from version 0.9 to version 1.0, and my son said
	"Dad, you know Java -- go help them finish it!" -- so I did :-).</p>

	<p>For quite a while, I was participating a lot on the JSP-INTEREST and
	SERVLET-INTEREST <a href="http://archives.java.sun.com">mailing lists</a>, especially on
	the topic of good architectures for web applications. I was disgusted with the
	hash that many beginners created when they used (or abused) scriptlets in JSP
	pages, and built (for my former employer) a pretty comprehensive framework that
	could be considered ("Struts 0.01 without the custom tags"). It was
	proprietary code, but I was able to describe the concepts, and there started to
	be a feeling on the lists that this "Model 2" thing was pretty cool -- but
	there were no good examples to look at, so it was mostly hand waving types of
	discussions.</p>

	<p>Over the same time period, I got involved as an individual contributor in the
	<a href="http://java.sun.com/jcp">Java Community Process</a>, and joined the expert group
	that defined the servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 specs. Sun was impressed enough to
	offer me a job as the technical lead on the team within Sun (currently five
	other individuals) that works on <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat">Tomcat</a> --
	the architecture for Catalina, which is the servlet container part of Tomcat
	4.0, is also mine -- so I am in the really nice position of getting paid to
	work on open source software :-). And, participate on the expert groups for
	Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2. And, speak at various conferences, including
	ApacheCon and JavaOne. And, talk to groups within Sun about using Struts and
	JSP/servlet technology. And ... (there's some really interesting things being
	considered for the future).</p>

	<p>The original design of what came to be Struts has been in my head for a long
	time, since those interesting mailing list discussions, but the first version
	of the actual code was written on my laptop on a Memorial Day weekend vacation
	trip (end of May, 2000) to the Oregon coast -- in between watching the surf and
	having the house shaken by a windstorm at night. Since then, it has gathered
	attention and popularity as we approach our first official release, and it
	delights me to see my "baby" grow up so well :-). Of course, it is no longer
	just me -- there have been incredible numbers of good ideas from all over, and
	a peek at the TODO list for 1.1 says that even more good stuff is coming in the
	future.</p>

	<p>One motivation factor was <a href="http://www.servlets.com/soapbox/problems-jsp.html">
	Jason Hunter's</a> article about the Problems with JSP. Jason and I get along
	fine, even though we have different preferences about presentation
	technologies. Besides being the author of a very popular book about servlets,
	with a second edition coming soon, Jason is also the representative for the
	Apache Software Foundation on the Executive Committe of the Java Community
	Process.</p>

	<p>Personally, I live in Portland, Oregon (even though my team at Sun is mostly in
	Cupertino, CA -- staying here was part of the job deal :-). I like to support
	Oregon sports teams (Oregon State Beavers, Oregon Ducks, Portland Trailblazers)
	and work on cool software.</p>

	<p>I figured out I was getting pretty old when I realized that 2000 was the 25th
	year I had been paid to work in some aspect of software development :-). I've
	got a son who is a full-time software developer (primarily in PHP so far, but
	I'm going to corrupt him with Java eventually :-), and a daughter in college.
	I'll happily let the other committers speak for themselves.</p>

	<h3><a name="mschachter">Mike Schachter -- Committer</a></h3>

	<p>I'm currently a student of computer
	science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
	I've been working at HP Middleware, formerly
	Bluestone Software for 3 years programming in
	Java and recently J2EE technologies. I'm a full
	time worker from September until April and a student
	and part time worker from April until August.
	In my spare time I've been known to run monkey-knife
	fights in a shady south philly warehouse. Err...
	I mean... nothing.</p>

	<h3><a name="husted">Ted Husted -- Committer</a></h3>

	<p>My primary interest in Struts is to put it to work writing lots of
	real-life Web applications:-) To do that effectively means having good
	documentation and code samples at my fingertips, so that's been my focus
	with the Struts product so far.</p>

	<p>I've been writing software for hire since 1984, but only recently jumped
	on the Java bandwagon. My initial interest was with electronic
	publishing, and started by converting my various print projects to
	electronic media. The "Information Superhighway" was still the private
	stomping ground of Universities and government agencies then. The rest
	of us had to make do with diskettes and bulletin boards.</p>

	<p>Between 1985 and 1994, I created and marketed several software products
	for publishing on disk, the most popular being "Dart" and "Iris". In
	1992, Dart was awarded the Digital Quill for software excellence,
	featured in PC Magazine (February 1992), and bundled with McGraw Hill's
	bookset,"Paperless Publishing" by Colin Hayes (McGraw Hill 1994). Dart
	won a second Digital Quill in 1993. Several titles that used Iris for a
	publishing system have also won awards and been widely distributed,
	including "Hermitville USA." I was also fortunate to find kindred souls
	on CompuServe and America Online, who helped me pioneer resources areas
	there in 1993 and 1994 for the nascent electronic publishing industry.</p>

	<p>I finally cut loose on the Internet in 1995, launching Epub News, an
	electronic newspage about electronic publishing. After taking on several
	private contracts, I opened the Husted dot Com Website (www.husted.com)
	in 1996. I've drifted away from electronic books, but have noticed that
	several products are now making their way into the consumer mainstream
	-- as usual, I was twenty minutes into the future:-)</p>

	<p>My favorite all-time project is the Hitchhikers Guide to Science
	Fiction. This was one of my earliest hypertext projects (it started as a
	print-book idea), and I had a lot of fun bringing it forward onto the
	Web. (Now, if I only had time to bring it current and dress it up!)</p>

	<p>My favorite all-time client is is WXXI Public Broadcasting Council,
	where I've served as the station's Webmaster. WXXI provides public
	broadcasting services for television and radio, and we are working to do
	the same online. Along with providing companion Web sites for every WXXI
	production, we stream both our AM and FM signals, in both Real and
	QuickTime, with online archives in the works. It's a long journey, but
	we've taken the first steps. I'm responsible for most of the regular
	updates to the site, and much of the overall layout and design. We're
	grateful to have won the PBS award for best Web site in our market for
	two years running.</p>

	<p>Our most ambitious projects at WXXI have been Spring Marketplace 2000
	and the NY Election Finder. For Spring Marketplace, we put our annual
	auction fully online for simultaneous telephone and Website bidding. On
	NY Election, we offered not only the usual election-finder application,
	but collected voter registration records from around the state, so
	people could also check their registration status and polling place. I
	developed the Web-enabled database applications for both projects.</p>

	<p>Currently, I'm expanding the WXXI online auction software into a
	complete package for hosting online auctions as fund-raisers; this is
	to be an open-source project called Gavel, and, of course, is
	based on Struts. </p>

	<h3><a name="cedric">Cedric Dumoulin -- Committer</a></h3>

	<p>As a dreamer / researcher I have thought a lot about a framework like Struts.
	But, as a lazy developer I have first checked what already exists, and I have
	found Struts. Struts goals fulfilled nearly all I needed for my (now old)
	portal project, except the capability to reuse and assemble easily pieces of
	pages or components. So, I have proposed the Components framework. This
	framework can be seen as a superset of the Templates tag library contributed
	by David Geary, and contains lot of interesting features.</p>

	<p>From a professional point of view, I have a Ph.D. in computer science. I have
	worked for 3 years in the R&D department of a worldwide company developing
	Internet banking solutions. I am now a researcher at a university, and work
	on European research projects. My main research interest is WWW, Distributed
	Systems and Object Oriented Design. When developing code, I always try to
	first propose reusable pieces of code.</p>

	<h3><a name="martinc">Martin Cooper -- Committer</a></h3>

	<p>Currently, I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Tumbleweed Communications,
	working on the Messaging Management System. Early last year (2000), I was
	working on the architecture for a new web-based administration system for
	the product, and headed in the direction of servlets and JSP. I joined the
	JSP-INTEREST and SERVLET-INTEREST mailing lists to see what was going on in
	those respective areas.</p>

	<p>Before too long, some interesting discussions started up around the topic
	of Model 2 architectures. Model 2 sounded like the right way to go about
	things, and I followed those discussions closely. I was, however, still
	looking for a "leg up" - something to give me that core on which to build.</p>

	<p>Then, in May, I saw a post to JSP-INTEREST from Craig McClanahan entitled
	something like "New Jakarta-Struts Subproject", and describing Struts, and
	his vision for it. I hopped right over to the Jakarta web site and signed
	up for the mailing list. Before long, I realised this was exactly what I
	had been looking for.</p>

	<p>Now, a year or so later, we have a team of people, on which I am the
	technical lead, just finishing up our web-based administration system as
	Struts reaches its 1.0 release. And I am still firmly convinced that I made
	the right decision in going with Struts in the first place.</p>

	<p>Like anyone else, my first postings to the struts-user list were questions
	to help me understand how to do things, and why Struts is the way it is.
	Over time, reading the lists and also the source code, and working on my
	own fairly large web application, I came to the point where I could answer
	questions too. Now, I'm glad to be able to give something back to the
	Struts community by helping others understand, and also by contributing
	ideas and code to help make Struts even better than it already is.</p>

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