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-- Proteus rewrites your user friendly MVC controller methods into high performance Undertow response handlers at run time.
+- Proteus rewrites your user friendly declarative controller methods into high performance Undertow response handlers at run time.
 - The goal is to provide the absolute highest performance while providing a simple and familiar API. 
 - As developers, we feel a web framework should provide the essentials at minimal cost.