S T A T U S
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Known Issues/Bugs:
    - see http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS



Documentation:
   - Complete user guide.
   - Improve documention of any or all of the view tools and the 
     commons-logging/LogSystem bridges (either xml/dvsl or javadoc)
   - Create a developer's guide (how to write tools, tips on extending VVS, etc.)



Proposed Features/Upgrades:
    General:
        - convert project to use Maven
        - stop keeping jars in CVS
        
    VelocityView:
        - add a library of velocimacros for use with these tools
        - Add a standalone toolbox manager
        - Pluggable toolbox manager in VelocityViewServlet
        - Tool pooling support (use commons-pool probably)
        - add chooseCharacterEncoding(req) to VVS to make dynamic encoding
          selection easier
        - look into supporting arbitrary layout depth (sort of a "tiles lite")
          for the VelocityLayoutServlet (cf. Niall's work with Simple)

    Generic tools:
        - add a library of general-use velocimacros
        - Template debugging tool(s)/support

    VelocityStruts:
        - add a library of velocimacros for use with struts tools
          (ideally these would be roughly parallel to struts tags to ease transition)
        - move dynamic javascript generation from java (ValidatorTool) to templates
          (this would probably work in concert with the velocimacro libraries)


Ideas being considered for version 2.0:
    - Toolbox support for non-servlet environments
    - Pluggable toolbox readers
    - Support for reading toolbox from properties files
    - Drop ViewTool and Configurable interfaces in favor of finding required methods by reflection


Example Ideas:
   - a blank Velocity-Struts application as the starting point for development.
   - an application to demonstrate use of more obscure features like the 
     AbstractSearchTool, MultiViewsTool, IteratorTool, and the like.
   - Struts 1.3 example(s). Take the existing Struts 1.3 examples and replace 
     the view layer with Velocity. (show off Tiles, modules, Validator, etc.)
   - example app(s) to demonstrate the velocimacro libraries
   - self-documenting apps to explain and demonstrate key features
   - a FooShop-type demo app (i.e. something closer to real-world use)