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Jason Hunter has published an interesting article about new features added to servlet 2.5. The focus of this article is like most of the JEE 5 goals all about simplification, easy of use, this is done by leveraging Java5 annotations (resources refences, life cycle support,...), some improvements around the web.xml, and cross context sessions support.
Finally the Java specification about Web Service will have a name that makes sense... moving away from JAX-RPC to JAX-WS (JAX Web Services)...
