diff --git a/apps/showcase/src/main/webapp/tutorial/WEB-INF/web.xml b/apps/showcase/src/main/webapp/tutorial/WEB-INF/web.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
-<web-app>
-
-    <display-name>Struts 2 Mailreader</display-name>
-
-    <context-param>
-        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
-        <param-value>classpath*:applicationContext*.xml</param-value>
-    </context-param>
-
-    <filter>
-        <filter-name>Struts2</filter-name>
-        <filter-class>
-            org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher
-        </filter-class>
-    </filter>
-
-    <filter-mapping>
-        <filter-name>Struts2</filter-name>
-        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
-    </filter-mapping>
-
-    <listener>
-        <listener-class>
-            org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
-        </listener-class>
-    </listener>
-
-    <welcome-file-list>
-        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
-    </welcome-file-list>
-
-</web-app>