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| <a name="Velocity v1.4-rc1 Released"><strong>Velocity v1.4-rc1 Released</strong></a> |
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| Release candidate #1 of Version 1.4 of the Velocity Template Engine is |
| available. Yay! (2003-10-10) |
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| Changes include : |
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| <li>New (and better) introspection code</li> |
| <li>Pluggable introspection</li> |
| <li>Lots of little fixes. See changelog.</li> |
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| As this is a release candidate, it is <b>not</b> mirrored and can be found |
| <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/jakarta/velocity/v1.4rc1/">here</a>. |
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| As part of their effort to reach v1.0, the JDOM |
| community has made slight modifications to their API. |
| This will affect Velocity users that use the 'Anakia' |
| package. |
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| Velocity versions 1.4 and older require using a version |
| of JDOM older than beta10rc1. All new releases of |
| Velocity will use JDOM beta10rc1 and 1.0 when it comes out. |
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| <strong>New Article on Velocity</strong> |
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| Sing Li discusses how to use Velocity in a standalone application |
| as well as a replacement for JSP in the Struts MVC framework in this |
| <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-velocity/"> |
| article</a> |
| (<i>2004-02-19</i>) |
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| <strong>ALE uses Velocity</strong> |
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| Brad Cox is pleased to announce the alpha (0.1) release of the |
| <a href="http://virtualschool.edu/ale/">Action Learning Environment (ALE)</a> |
| , an open source environment for |
| building experiential learning environments. |
| ALE is open source (free) software and is available |
| (<i>2004-1-22</i>) |
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| <strong>New Article on Velocity</strong> |
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| Erik Hatcher's recent article |
| <a href="http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/12/16/velocity.html"> |
| Velocity: Fast Track to Templating</a> is currently a featured |
| article at <a href="http://www.java.net/">java.net</a>. |
| (<i>2003-12-23</i>) |
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| <strong>Velosurf 0.8 Released</strong> |
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| <a href="http://velosurf.sourceforge.net">Velosurf</a>, |
| a database access tool for use with the Velocity template engine, |
| has released v0.8 |
| (<i>2003-10-21</i>) |
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| <strong>Generate SOAP messages with Ivory</strong> |
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| <a href="http://ivory.codehaus.org/soaplet/index.html">Ivory Soaplet</a> |
| framework uses Velocity to generate SOAP messages. |
| (<i>2003-10-14</i>) |
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| <strong>IntelliJ IDEA Uses Velocity</strong> |
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| <a href="http://www.intellij.com/">IntelliJ IDEA</a> uses Velocity as its |
| templating system for generating class and method javaodocs. |
| (<i>2003-10-14</i>) |
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| </p> |
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| <strong>Cotsec Forms Uses Velocity</strong> |
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| <a href="http://www.cotsec.com/">Cotsec</a> has released a |
| cross-language/cross-platform rapid development |
| environment called Cotsec Forms that uses Velocity as its underlying |
| template engine. |
| (<i>2003-08-23</i>) |
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| <strong>Velocity Tools 1.0</strong> |
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| The first release of the <a href="tools/index.html">Velocity Tools</a> subproject is |
| <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-velocity-tools/release/v1.0/">available</a>. |
| It includes a generic tools package, support for clean, quick MVC web |
| development in the VelocityView package, and support for integration with |
| the Struts framework. |
| (<i>2003-07-16</i>) |
| </blockquote> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <i>Archived articles are <a href="newshistory.html">here</a></i>. |
| </p> |
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| <a name="What is Velocity?"><strong>What is Velocity?</strong></a> |
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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>. |
| </p> |
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| Velocity's capabilities reach well beyond the realm of the web; |
| for example, it can be used to 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. For instance, Velocity |
| provides template services for the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/">Turbine</a> web |
| application framework, together providing a view engine |
| facilitating development of web applications according to a true |
| MVC model. |
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| The current release version is version 1.3.1. |
| </p> |
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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/v1.3.1/">here</a>. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The latest <i>release candidate</i> v1.4-rc1 can be found |
| <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/jakarta/velocity/v1.4rc1/">here</a>. |
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| <a name="Where do I get nightly snapshots?"><strong>Where do I get nightly snapshots?</strong></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>. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| 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. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| 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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| <a name="How do I contribute, give feedback, fix bugs and so on?"><strong>How do I contribute, give feedback, fix bugs and so on?</strong></a> |
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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> |
| <li> |
| Discussion occurs on the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/mail.html">Velocity |
| mailing list</a>.</li> |
| <li> |
| 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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