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 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
> "ResourceNotFound" exception.
>
> I guess this happens because Velocity cannot get
> parent directory of a web application without a
> reference to servlet context. But I'm not sure what I
> can do with this. I can't specify absolute path in
> velocity.properties and I would prefer to avoid
> setting path properties directly in the code (I don't
> know how to it anyway - tried
> Velocity.setProperty("file.resource.loader.path",absolutePathToTemplateDirectory)
> and it didn't work).
> Maybe it's possible to pass a "default directory" path
> somehow?
>
> Cheers,
> Leo Asanov
>
>
>
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