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 Velocity Site Tools
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Velocity Site Tools

 Here are a number of Maven-2 related projects located that are
 used when generating and maintaining the Velocity Site.

* Velocity Site Doxia Renderer

 This is a Maven plugin that is used to generate parts of the site not
 from static APT or Xdoc files but from Velocity templates.

 Most prominently, the
 {{{http://velocity.apache.org/team-list.html}Who we are}} and
 {{{http://velocity.apache.org/mail-lists.html}Contact Us}} pages benefit
 from this as their information can be kept at a central place (the
 {{{http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/site/site/pom.xml}Site
 POM}}) and gets read and parsed from there.

* Velocity Site News Plugin

 This is a Maven plugin that allows you to keep news items in a
 XML file and displayed at various parts of your site.

 It also registers a Doxia macro with the Renderer which is
 responsible for generating the
 {{{http://velocity.apache.org/index.html#recent_news}list of news
 teasers}} on the cover page of the web site.

 The plugin runs as a report plugin and writes the actual
 {{{http://velocity.apache.org/news.html}News Report}} and also
 generates a RSS feed file for subscribing to your site news.

* Velocity Site Skin

 The skin contains the 'look-and-feel' of the Velocity site. As we also
 use a custom template to render out the pages, we were able to sneak
 a RSS auto-subscription link into the header of each page, thus showing
 up the RSS feed in all Velocity site pages.