Version 1.3-rc1 of the Velocity Template Engine is now available. Thanks to all in the Velocity community!

This release candidate offers many new enhancements, features and fixes over version 1.2.

Major enhancements include :

• Automatic detection of log4j or logkit as the default logger. It's your choice - just put either into the classpath.
• Application Attributes allow your applications to interact with custom components such as loggers and resource loaders.
• The Resource Manager and Resource Cache are now pluggable.

Minor enhancements are too numerous to mention. Please see the change log for details.

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.

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.

The current release version is version 1.2

The release distribution is available in both tar.gz and zip formats, and are found here.

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.

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.

• There is a list of Active Developers. Submit some code and get your name added!
• Discussion occurs on the Velocity mailing list.
• Access to the CVS jakarta-velocity repository is available both online and with a cvs client.