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Create a javaEE5 web module and add a servlet. No "new servlet" event is send by the merged dd provider even though the servlet entry is added to web.xml. Perhaps the merged dd provider is not merging the standard descriptor with the annotations?
(You can test this by performing the above steps, then open sun-web.xml and double click the "Sun Web Application" tree node to open it. There will not a servlet sub node. If you perform these same steps in J2EE 1.4, you will see the servlet page that should be there.
Additionally, no event is sent when <security-role> is added either.
Probably depends on issue 77568.
Raising priority to P2. This is a serious deficiency in web's merged dd provider.
Fixed by latest DD providing changes.