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• 20 Dec 2008:
  Servlet 3.0 Public Review : Update
  I have been working on an implementation of the Servlet-3.0 asynchronous servlets with some the fixes/extensions I suggested in my previous blog and from some continuing discussion within the EG. This implementation demonstrates that significant asynchronous behaviour can be implemented without the complexities of redispatching wrapped requests or the forward(path) methods.
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• 15 Dec 2008:
  Servlet 3.0 Public Review
  JSR-315 has produced a Public Review (PR) of the servlet 3.0 specification, which unfortunately is a poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process.[...] Significant effort has been put into the PR proposal [...]  but  unfortunately it has become a Frankenstein monster, cobbled together from eviscerated good ideas and misguided best intentions. The 8 methods of the ED proposal that were rejected as being too complex and confusing have been replaced by 20 methods and 3 new interfaces!  [...] The EG is desperately in need of community feedback and probably another round of Public Review after a beta RI is made available.
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