2009 will be the year of JEE 6. Important specifications in the JEE 6 platform are Servlet and JavaServer Faces. JEE 6 will contain the Servlet 3.0 specification as well as the JSF 2.0 specification. Both are developed in the JCP. JSF 2.0 as JSR-314 (see: jcp.org/en/jsr/detail) led by Ed Burns (Sun) and Roger Kitain (Sun) with participation from almost every vendor in the Java Web Application space. Servlet 3.0 is JSR-315 headed by Rajiv Mordani (Sun); more detail on the JCP Site for Servlet 3.0.

During his presentation at Devoxx 2008, Martin Marinschek shed a lot of light on the most important features currently being specified in JSR-314 and JSF-315 for Servlet 3.0 and JSF 2.0. A few of the highlights in the Servlet 3.0 spec are discussed in this article; another article will go into JSF 2.0 details.

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