Re: Initializing Velocity ouside of a servlet

2005-06-30 Thread mailmur
Here is a small standalone test program, It uses my customized UnicodeFileResourceLoader. But it should give you a good example how to use it outside of any app server. http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/java/unicodereader/ I have actually used Velocity as a sql query generator. I have sql template files

Initializing Velocity ouside of a servlet

2005-06-28 Thread Leo Asanov
Hi! What is the right way to initialize Velocity outside of a servlet? My application works fine when I'm using VelocityViewServlet, but when I'm trying to initialize Velocity from any standard Java class (with Velocity.init(absolutePathToPropertiesFile)) Velocity.mergeTemplate always throws

Re: Initializing Velocity ouside of a servlet

2005-06-28 Thread Markos Charatzas
Hello Leo, For starters, try and initialize velocity with a Properties object loaded using a Resource. Make sure that velocity.properties is in the classpath. e.g. InputStream vProps = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(/velocity.properties); try { Properties

Re: Initializing Velocity ouside of a servlet

2005-06-28 Thread Nathan Bubna
what version of VelocityTools are you using? and are you trying to initialize the Velocity singleton within the same application as the VelocityViewServlet? have you tried initializing a VelocityEngine instead of the singleton? On 6/27/05, Leo Asanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! What is the