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Velocity 1.4 Released

Posted by michael on from the more-than-just-a-web-server dept.

JohnA writes "After what seemed to be a 30 year beta period, the Apache Jakarta team has made available the final release version of Velocity 1.4. If you're not familiar with Velocity, it's one of the most powerful and popular templating engines around. And, as an added bonus, a DreamWeaver plugin was also released."

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  1. Re:About time... by mhesseltine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not trolling here: if Velocity is, as you say,

    "another Jakarta templating project that does almost exactly the same thing, but not quite, but our description of the project will claim our version is superior, with a name that has nothing to do with what the project does."
    Does that imply that there is a "standard" or in your opinion better templating project in the Jakarta project?

    I've been interested in learning Java/JSP/etc. and would love to hear your recommendation on a good engine to study.

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  2. What I like most about Velocity by osewa77 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is that, unlike technologies like JSP, Velocity works simply as a component, a module, which you can adapt for various purposes in your application. I don't believe in frameworks, I believe in modules which have their source code available.
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  3. Re:Why? by mmcshane · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The most important difference for me is that Velocity is not tied to server side servlet processing. JSP templates cannot be used outside of a servlet container (they are in fact compiled into servlets at runtime) however Velocity templates can be used in any context. I personally have used Velocity to do source code generation and offline report generation.