Since Sakai is upgrading its required version to tomcat 7.x support for servlets 3.0 will be available. New features coming with servlets can only be used with JSF 2.0
The main reason I created this Jira was that the 'original' Jira was more inclined towards version 1.2 or was ambiguous(1.2.x or 'higher'). However if that Jira is taking JSF 2.0 into account then its seems only fair to close this one.
Since Sakai is upgrading its required version to tomcat 7.x support for servlets 3.0 will be available. New features coming with servlets can only be used with JSF 2.0