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Version 1.3 of the
Velocity Template Engine is now available.
Thanks to all in the Velocity community!
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Major enhancements include :
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Automatic detection of log4j or logkit as the default logger. It's your
choice - just put either into the classpath.
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Application Attributes allow your applications to interact with custom
components such as loggers and resource loaders.
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The Resource Manager and Resource Cache are now pluggable.
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The User's Guide is now available in Finnish, French, Spanish and
English.
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Minor enhancements are too numerous to mention. Please see the
<a href="changes.html">change log
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Apologies to the community for the wait... (<i>2002-07-07</i>)
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<strong>User's Guide Now Available in French</strong>
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Thanks to the translation contributed by
Jean-Francois El Fouly, the Velocity project can now
offer the <a href="user-guide_fr.html">User's Guide</a> in French. Thanks!
(<i>2002-06-17</i>)
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<strong>New Release : Maverick</strong>
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Another new release in the Velocity 'powered-by' family -
The <a href="http://mav.sourceforge.net/">Maverick</a>
team is happy to announce the version 2.1 release of the
Maverick MVC Framework.
(<i>2002-06-12</i>)
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<strong>User's Guide Now Available in Spanish</strong>
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Thanks to the translation contributed by
Juan Pablo Morales Olaya, the Velocity project can now
offer the <a href="user-guide_es.html">User's Guide</a> in Spanish. Thanks!
(<i>2002-06-06</i>)
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<strong>New Release : vDoclet</strong>
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Another new milestone release in the Velocity 'powered-by' family :
<ul>
<li><a href="http://vdoclet.sourceforge.net/">vDoclet 20020422</a></li>
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Check it out!(<i>2002-06-06</i>)
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<strong>New Releases : Turbine, WebWork and JPublish</strong>
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A few new releases in the Velocity family :
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/">Turbine 2.2-b1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/webwork/">WebWork 1.0</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jpublish.org/">JPublish 0.9</a></li>
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Check 'em out!(<i>2002-03-23</i>)
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<strong>JeeWiz : The Enterprise System Builder</strong>
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<a href="http://www.jeewiz.co.uk/index.html">JeeWiz</a>, a new product from
<a href="http://www.nte.co.uk/index.html">New Technology/enterprise Limited</a>,
is a J2EE system development tool that uses Velocity templates to generate
infrastructure code, deployment descriptors and build jobs for J2EE
projects. And it's said Velocity has no place in J2EE... ;-)
(<i>2002-03-09</i>)
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<strong>User's Guide Available in Finnish</strong>
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Thanks to Juha Kilpi, we now offer a Finnish translation
to the
<a href="user-guide_fi.html">Velocity Users Guide</a>. Thanks Juha!
(<i>2002-01-27</i>)
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<strong>Velocity Tool Subproject</strong>
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The first code for the new Velocity Tool Subproject is in
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in CVS as
<a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-velocity-tools/">
jakarta-velocity-tools</a>. The first functionality includes
integration with
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/">
Jakarta Struts</a> as well as a generic template-rendering
servlet with tool support. Take a look!
(<i>2002-01-03</i>)
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<strong>Introductory Velocity Article on <i>JavaWorld</i></strong>
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For a introduction to the Velocity Template Engine, a brief
overview of the Velocity Template Language and some basic
examples, see is the new
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2001/jw-1228-velocity.html">
article</a> on
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/">JavaWorld</a> by Geir Magnusson Jr.
(<i>2001-12-28</i>)
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<strong>DVSL XML Transformation Tool Added as Subproject</strong>
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The DVSL XML transformation tool has been added as a new subproject.
Check it out <a href="/velocity/dvsl/index.html">here</a>.(<i>2001-12-18</i>)
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<strong>Velocity mentioned in ZDNet Article (last May)</strong>
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It seems we could be a "can't-live-without-it piece of the
infrastructure" of tomorrow. Check
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2717910,00.html">
it</a> out. <i>(2001-12-09)</i>
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<strong>Luxor, Velocity-based XUL Toolkit Released</strong>
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Luxor is an open-source XML User Interface Language (XUL) toolkit for
Java. Read more <a href="http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net">here</a>.
<i>(2001-12-08)</i>
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<strong>Generate Code with Velocity in Borland's JBuilder </strong>
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<a href="http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,28086,00.html">Read</a>
about how to use Velocity and Borland's OpenTools API to extend Borland's
JBuilder for template-based Java source code generation. <i>(2001-12-08)</i>
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<i>Archived articles are <a href="/newshistory.html">here</a></i>.
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Velocity is a Java-based template engine. It permits anyone to use
the simple yet powerful template language to reference objects
defined in Java code.
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When Velocity is used for web development, Web designers can work in
parallel with Java programmers to develop web sites according to the
Model-View-Controller (MVC) model, meaning that web page designers
can focus solely on creating a site that looks good, and programmers
can focus solely on writing top-notch code. Velocity separates Java
code from the web pages, making the web site more maintainable over
the long run and providing a viable alternative to <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/">Java Server Pages</a>
(JSPs) or <a href="http://www.php.net/">PHP</a>.
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Velocity's capabilities reach well beyond the realm of web sites; for
example, it can generate SQL and PostScript and XML (see <a href="./anakia.html">Anakia</a> for more information on XML transformations)
from templates. It can be used either as a standalone utility for
generating source code and reports, or as an integrated component of other
systems. Velocity also provides template services for the
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/">Turbine</a> web application
framework. Velocity+Turbine provides a template service that allows
web applications to be developed according to a true MVC model.
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The current release version is version 1.3
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The release distribution is available in both <code>tar.gz</code> and <code>zip</code>
formats, and are found <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-velocity/release/v1.3/">here</a>.
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Nightly snapshots of the Velocity CVS can be found
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-velocity/nightly/">here</a>.
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These are meant to provide easy access to the actual project CVS tree.
As this is our live development workspace, there are no guarantees as to
what you will find there,although we do our best to maintain a buildable
source tree. If you are looking for the stable supported release, please
use the current release of Velocity.
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If you are willing to risk getting dirty, we invite you to try the
nightly snapshot to see the current state of affairs (and help out!) <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html">Public CVS
access</a> is also available.
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The Velocity project really needs and appreciates any contributions,
including documentation help, source code and feedback. Suggested
changes should come in the form of source code and/or very detailed
and constructive feedback.
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There is a list of <a href="contributors.html">Active Developers</a>.
Submit some code and get your name added!</li>
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Discussion occurs on the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/mail.html">Velocity
mailing list</a>.</li>
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Access to the CVS <strong>jakarta-velocity</strong> repository is available both
<a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-velocity/">online</a>
and with a <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/cvsindex.html">cvs client</a>.</li>
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