beyond just the WebappLoader, the VelocityTools project is also home
to the VelocityViewServlet (designated successor of the deprecated
VelocityServlet), and several simple, drop-and-go example apps you can
play with until you get things working.
basically, if you're developing a webapp with Velocity, you should
look into the VelocityTools project. it will make your life much
easier. :)
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:47:32 +0200, Markos Charatzas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> In a servlet environment I would recommed that you use a
> org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.WebappLoader
>
> with the loader.path specified as you have it already.
>
> Have a good week :)
> Markos
>
> On Sunday 20 February 2005 19:57, Michael Salmon wrote:
> > Just a follow-up. I found that from where I launch tomcat is where it
> > wants to load templates from. It seems clear to me my loader.path is not
> > being setup correctly. For now until I have a better solution I'll just
> > have to launch tomcat from my webapp root and put my templates there..
> > Still I'd love to have a proper solution.
> >
> > thanks
> > Michael
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 09:46:47AM -0800, Michael Salmon wrote:
> > > hi folks
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get my development environment setup on freebsd and
> > > templates don't load from where I want. In particular here is what
> > > I'm doing:
> > >
> > > 1. servlet extends VelocityServlet. and calls Velocity.init(). I dont
> > > override loadConfiguration()
> > >
> > > 2. In my webapp, web.xml I define the specific properties file:
> > > <param-name>org.apache.velocity.properties</param-name>
> > > <param-value>/WEB-INF/velocity.properties</param-value>
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure the right velocity.properties file is being loaded,
> > > because when I change the name it spits an error in the log.
> > >
> > > 4. In the properties file I define:
> > >
> > > file.resource.loader.path = /WEB-INF/templates/
> > >
> > > 5. In my servlet I do:
> > > getTemplate("Test.vm");
> > >
> > > /www/element/WEB-INF/templates/Test.vm - this file exists
> > >
> > > 6. catalina.log -
> > > org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find
> > > resource 'Test.vm'
> > >
> > >
> > > 7. If I copy my template to /www/element/Test.vm velocity finds the
> > > template, but I'd prefer not to keep my templates there. So any
> > > suggestion to make it load from the location I want but obvoiusly am
> > > setup wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> >
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