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Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the speed-kills dept.

Nathan Bubna writes "Jakarta Velocity Tools is a newly released project from the Apache Software Foundation. It provides servlets and tools for rapid, clean, MVC web development with Velocity, tools for using Velocity with the Jakarta Struts framework, and a set of generic tools to help with any Velocity project."

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  1. FreeMarker by Lordrashmi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I messed with Velocity but found it to be somewhat of a pain in the butt. I much prefer FreeMarker. Similar features to Velocity, just easier to use. Oh and the documentation kicks ass, which is one area I found lacking in velocity.

    And no, I am not a freemarker developer, just a happy user.

  2. Re:Anyone use Velocity? by Dr.+Bent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sun did the Petstore example with J2ee, MS ported it to .NET and showed a huge performance spike... The reason for the performance "boost" was that Microsoft didn't use EJB data caching in the Java version they tested against. So every request sent a query straight to the database. They did use a database caching system for thier implementation, however, and so the performance was much higher. Certianly not apples and oranges, but what do you expect from Microsoft.