New features
- Ability to use aspireContext
 - Ability to use /display /update mappings for Aspire servlets
 - External session manager is available as an additional component
 - LoginValidator BeginRequest Handler added
 - AspireLoginPart is now available to help with login page applications
 - ServersideRedirect is an option on a per url basis
 - DUpdateServletRequestFailureResponse1 added
 
What is possible with the new features
- Shorter URLs
 - Write web applications that can work with any web app context
 - Ability to use Aspire more easily with external systems such as Jetspeed
 - Explicit support for security based on a login page as opposed to an httpAuthentication
 - ServerSideRedirects on a per url basis now allows better field validation in web forms
 
New mandatory entry in the aspire.properties
request.ApplicationObjects.ServletRequestUpdateFailure.classname=\
com.ai.servlets.DUpdateServletRequestFailureResponse1
Servlet Jar dependencies
It should work with servlets 2.1 or above. Let me know if you have any problems with older releases of the servlets jar