On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Steve O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Nathan > > Excellent work as always, very much appreciated. > > However, a method that appears to have been dropped from > VelocityViewServlet is setVelocityEngine. I had hoped that this would > be superseded by setVelocityView but alas not and I'm guessing it's > because you didn't think anyone was/should be using it?
yeah, early in 2.0 development, i went through a stage of making things more "opinionated". i've since reneged on that and merely haven't bothered to add a setVelocityView to VVS since then. i'll add it, no prob. > In our environment we allow the web administrator to change some of the > fundamental Velocity configuration parameters whilst the app is running > e.g. Template Caching etc. When they do this, we use our extended > VelocityViewServlet class to unload the current VelocityEngine and > reload it with a new one that has been configured with the new values. thanks, the use-case totally helps me understand why this is handy. > Without a way of setting the new VelocityView I don't have any way of > doing this in 2.0. > > Is there another way of telling the shared VelocityView to reload itself > perhaps? no, but that's an interesting idea. if you think that would be more useful, let me know and perhaps you can help me figure out how that might/should work. :) > Cheers, > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > .org] On Behalf Of Nathan Bubna > Sent: 03 December 2008 06:02 > To: Velocity Users List; Velocity Developers List; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] VelocityTools 2.0-beta3 release > > The Velocity developers are pleased to make the third (and probably > final) beta release of > VelocityTools 2.0 available for download. > > Downloads are available here: > http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi > > This should be useable as a drop in replacement for Tools 1.4 or Tools > 2.0-beta2, with a few minor exceptions. The 2.x series of > VelocityTools also requires both Velocity 1.5+ and JDK 1.5+. > > Since the last beta release, there have been a number of small fixes, > additional features (like caching for VelocityViewTag), and especially > improvements in the extensibility of VelocityView. > > The Velocity developers are very interested in all feedback regarding > Tools 2.0, especially regarding backwards compatibility with apps > designed for Tools 1.4 or earlier. We aim to enable a smooth, > incremental transition for developers and their applications. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
