Velocity View for Struts is the first non-JSP view layer to take advantage of the new Struts ContextHelper. The ContextHelper is an object exposed by Struts that allows any Java-based view technology access to Struts resources.

It was created by Gabriel Sidler and Geir Magnusson Jr of the Velocity community and Ted Husted of the Struts community to try and demonstrate that other presentation layer technologies can be used with the Struts web application framework.

You can find a complete example WAR at ... You can just drop this WAR into your favorite servlet engine's webapp directory (or equivalent) as the file vvs.war, restart the servlet engine, and aim your browser at

http://localhost:8080/vvs/examples/

and follow the directions.