Servlet 3.0 Basics (Java EE 6)
Topics
- Ease of Development
- Dynamic registration of Servlets and Filters
- Pluggability
- Resources in bundled jar files
Advanced topics of Servlet 3.0 (AsyncServlet, Security enhancements, etc.) will be covered in “Servlet 3.0 Advanced”
Ease of Development (EoD)
- Declarative style of programming through annotations
- web.xml is now optional
- Everything that can be specified in web.xml now can be specified through annotations
- Better defaults
- Convention over configuration