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User's Guide Now Available in French
Thanks to the translation contributed by
Jean-Francois El Fouly, the Velocity project can now
offer the User's Guide in French. Thanks!
(2002-06-17)
New Release : Maverick
Another new release in the Velocity 'powered-by' family -
The Maverick
team is happy to announce the version 2.1 release of the
Maverick MVC Framework.
(2002-06-12)
User's Guide Now Available in Spanish
Thanks to the translation contributed by
Juan Pablo Morales Olaya, the Velocity project can now
offer the User's Guide in Spanish. Thanks!
(2002-06-06)
New Release : vDoclet
Another new milestone release in the Velocity 'powered-by' family :
Check it out!(2002-06-06)
New Releases : Turbine, WebWork and JPublish
A few new releases in the Velocity family :
Check 'em out!(2002-03-23)
JeeWiz : The Enterprise System Builder
JeeWiz, a new product from
New Technology/enterprise Limited,
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... ;-)
(2002-03-09)
User's Guide Available in Finnish
Thanks to Juha Kilpi, we now offer a Finnish translation
to the
Velocity Users Guide. Thanks Juha!
(2002-01-27)
Velocity Tool Subproject
The first code for the new Velocity Tool Subproject is in
and can be found
in CVS as
jakarta-velocity-tools. The first functionality includes
integration with
Jakarta Struts as well as a generic template-rendering
servlet with tool support. Take a look!
(2002-01-03)
Introductory Velocity Article on JavaWorld
For a introduction to the Velocity Template Engine, a brief
overview of the Velocity Template Language and some basic
examples, see is the new
article on
JavaWorld by Geir Magnusson Jr.
(2001-12-28)
DVSL XML Transformation Tool Added as Subproject
The DVSL XML transformation tool has been added as a new subproject.
Check it out here.(2001-12-18)
Velocity mentioned in ZDNet Article (last May)
It seems we could be a "can't-live-without-it piece of the
infrastructure" of tomorrow. Check
it out. (2001-12-09)
Luxor, Velocity-based XUL Toolkit Released
Luxor is an open-source XML User Interface Language (XUL) toolkit for
Java. Read more here.
(2001-12-08)
Generate Code with Velocity in Borland's JBuilder
Read
about how to use Velocity and Borland's OpenTools API to extend Borland's
JBuilder for template-based Java source code generation. (2001-12-08)
Archived articles are here.
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What is Velocity?
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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.
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 Java Server Pages
(JSPs) or PHP.
Velocity's capabilities reach well beyond the realm of web sites; for
example, it can generate SQL and PostScript and XML (see Anakia 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
Turbine 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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Where do I get releases?
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The current release version is version 1.3, but there is a known bug. Using
the 1.3.1 release candidate is suggested. The fix was minor, and is being
released as a release candidate for a short period for final validation by
users.
The release distribution is available in both tar.gz and zip
formats, and is found here.
The release candidate distribution is available in both tar.gz and zip
formats, and is found here.
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Where do I get nightly snapshots?
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Nightly snapshots of the Velocity CVS can be found
here.
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.
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!) Public CVS
access is also available.
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How do I contribute, give feedback, fix bugs and so on?
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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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