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+<document>
+
+ <properties>
+ <title>Velocity</title>
+ <author email="geirm@apache.org">Velocity Documentation Team</author>
+ </properties>
+
+ <body>
+
+
+<section name="Older Velocity News">
+
+
+<p>
+<strong>Velocidoc Released</strong>
+<blockquote>
+<a href="http://velocidoc.sourceforge.net/intro.html">
+Velocidoc</a>, a Velocimacro documentation tool modeled after
+Javadoc, is now available. Use Javadoc-style comments in your
+Velocimacro libraries, and use Velocidoc to generate HTML
+documentation.
+</blockquote>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<strong>New Apache Site Generated with Anakia</strong>
+<blockquote>
+The new web site of the
+<a href="http://www.apache.org">Apache Software Foundation</a>
+is now generated using
+<a href="anakia.html">Anakia</a>,
+the Velocity-based XML transformation tool.
+Take a look.
+</blockquote>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<strong>Need To Mix JSP and Velocity?</strong>
+<blockquote>
+Take a look at a new contribution, a
+<a href="veltag.html">Velocity taglib</a> that lets you
+use Velocity right in your JSPs.
+</blockquote>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<strong>4 published articles covering Velocity</strong>
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<a href="http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/09/serv/">Getting Up
+to Speed with Velocity</a> is a really well written article by Jim
+Jagielski about the merits of using a tool like Velocity.
+</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>
+Many people believe that Velocity can only be used in the context of web
+applications. This excellent <a
+href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2001/jw-0727-templates.html">JavaWorld
+article</a> by Leon Messerschmidt shows that the design of Velocity is
+such that it can be used in a myriad of applications.
+</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>
+The Java Developer Journal recently <a
+href="http://www.sys-con.com/java/articlea.cfm?id=1080">published</a> an
+edited version of the <a href="./ymtd/ymtd.html">YMTD article</a> by Jon
+Stevens as the cover story for their July edition.
+</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>
+ The Sun <i>Dot-Com Builder</i> developer information site has a "Best Practices" product profile on Velocity. Check it out
+ <a href=" http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/velocity.jsp">here</a>. Thanks Sun!
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<strong> 4 Products/Projects Now Depend on Velocity </strong>
+</p>
+<blockquote>
+Gentleware, Xadra and Vamp have built products which depend on Velocity.
+J/Top, a server monitoring project, also uses Velocity for email output
+formatting.
+We have listed them on our ever expanding <a
+href="./powered.html">Powered By Velocity</a> page.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<strong> 5 Web Frameworks Now Support Velocity </strong>
+</p>
+<blockquote>
+Turbine, JPublish, Melati, Maverick and WebWork
+all support Velocity.
+We have listed them on our ever expanding <a
+href="./powered.html">Powered By Velocity</a> page.
+</blockquote>
+
+ </section>
+
+
+ </body>
+ </document>
+
+
+
+
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