diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index 881890d66..26e22783f 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
         <conf name="freemarker" deprecated="20060303000000"/>
         <conf name="velocity"/>
         <conf name="fileupload"/>
-        <conf name="fileupload-cos" deprecated="20050831000000"/>
         <conf name="fileupload-pell" deprecated="20050831000000"/>
         <conf name="sitemesh"/>
         <conf name="quickstart"/>
@@ -89,9 +88,6 @@
         <!-- fileupload -->
         <dependency org="apache" name="commons-fileupload" rev="1.1" conf="fileupload->default"/>
 
-        <!-- fileupload-cos -->
-        <dependency org="cos" name="cos" rev="20021105" conf="fileupload-cos->default"/>
-
         <!-- fileupload-pell -->
         <dependency org="pell" name="multipartrequest" rev="1.19" conf="fileupload-pell->default"/>
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/struts/action2/dispatcher/multipart/CosMultiPartRequest.java b/src/java/org/apache/struts/action2/dispatcher/multipart/CosMultiPartRequest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 90e39789f..000000000
--- a/src/java/org/apache/struts/action2/dispatcher/multipart/CosMultiPartRequest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2002-2003 by OpenSymphony
- * All rights reserved.
- */
-package org.apache.struts.action2.dispatcher.multipart;
-
-import com.oreilly.servlet.MultipartRequest;
-
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.Enumeration;
-import java.util.List;
-
-
-/**
- * Multipart form data request adapter for Jason Hunter's
- * <a href="http://www.servlets.com/cos/index.html" target="_blank">multipart utils</a>
- * (COS == com.oreilly.servlet).
- *
- * @author <a href="mailto:matt@smallleap.com">Matt Baldree</a> (modified for WW's use)
- * @author <a href="mailto:scott@atlassian.com">Scott Farquhar</a> (added i18n handling (WW-109))
- */
-public class CosMultiPartRequest extends MultiPartRequest {
-
-    private MultipartRequest multi;
-
-
-    /**
-     * Creates a new request wrapper to handle multi-part data using methods adapted from the COS
-     * multipart classes (see class description).
-     *
-     * @param maxSize        maximum size post allowed
-     * @param saveDir        the directory to save off the file
-     * @param servletRequest the request containing the multipart
-     */
-    public CosMultiPartRequest(HttpServletRequest servletRequest, String saveDir, int maxSize) throws IOException {
-        String encoding = getEncoding();
-
-        if (encoding != null) {
-            multi = new MultipartRequest(servletRequest, saveDir, maxSize, encoding);
-        } else {
-            multi = new MultipartRequest(servletRequest, saveDir, maxSize);
-        }
-    }
-
-
-    public Enumeration getFileParameterNames() {
-        return multi.getFileNames();
-    }
-
-    public String[] getContentType(String fieldName) {
-        return new String[]{multi.getContentType(fieldName)};
-    }
-
-    public File[] getFile(String fieldName) {
-        return new File[]{multi.getFile(fieldName)};
-    }
-
-    public String[] getFileNames(String fieldName) {
-        return new String[]{multi.getFile(fieldName).getName()};
-    }
-
-    public String[] getFilesystemName(String name) {
-        return new String[]{multi.getFilesystemName(name)};
-    }
-
-    public String getParameter(String name) {
-        return multi.getParameter(name);
-    }
-
-    public Enumeration getParameterNames() {
-        return multi.getParameterNames();
-    }
-
-    public String[] getParameterValues(String name) {
-        return multi.getParameterValues(name);
-    }
-
-    public List getErrors() {
-        return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Set the encoding for the uploaded parameters. This needs to be set if you are using character sets
-     * other than ASCII.<p>
-     * <p/>
-     * The encoding is looked up from the configuration setting 'webwork.i18n.encoding'.  This is usually set in
-     * default.properties and webwork.properties.
-     */
-    private static String getEncoding() {
-        return "utf-8";
-
-        //todo: configuration in xwork needs to support non-action level config
-
-        /*
-        String encoding = null;
-        try {
-
-            //encoding = Configuration.getString("webwork.i18n.encoding");
-        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
-            LogFactory.getLog(PellMultiPartRequest.class).info("Could not get encoding property 'webwork.i18n.encoding' for file upload.  Using system default");
-        }
-        return encoding;
-        */
-    }
-}