Thanks for your help Nathan. My application is running ok now. I forgot to
mention that I was also using Spring framework so what I did was update all
the libraries I was using (Spring 2.0.2 and Velocity 1.5) and now the
application works fine.
Thanks for your time Nathan.
Nathan Bubna wrote:
>
> Are you still using Velocity 1.4? I'm pretty sure that it's not
> possible to get that same error with Velocity 1.5-beta2. Also, can
> you send the log output? And have you tried running the
> velocity-struts example app?
>
> On 2/21/07, janbrito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>> Thanks for your comments. I made the changes but I'm still getting the
>> same
>> error when $msg.label.portal.welcome gets executed. It's like for some
>> reason Velocity can't see the Struts ApplicationResource file and can't
>> find
>> the message.
>>
>> Any body see what's missing here?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Nathan Bubna wrote:
>> >
>> > On 2/20/07, janbrito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi, I'm trying to get Velocity working on a struts application. This
>> is
>> >> what
>> >> I've dono so far:
>> >
>> > Have you looked at the "struts" example application that comes with
>> > VelocityTools? That might help you find problems in your setup.
>> >
>> >> 1) Added to the project the velocity libraries (velocity-1.4.jar,
>> >> velocity-dep-1.4.jar and velocity-tools-1.3.jar)
>> >
>> > I strongly recommend upgrading to velocity-dep-1.5-beta2. It is quite
>> > stable and contains numerous bug fixes and improvements. Velocity
>> > 1.5 final should be released in just a week or so, and there have been
>> > few changes since 1.5-beta2.
>> >
>> >> 2) Added this to my web.xml file:
>> >>
>> >> <servlet>
>> >> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
>> >> <servlet-class>
>> >> org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet
>> >> </servlet-class>
>> >> <init-param>
>> >> <param-name>org.apache.velocity.toolbox</param-name>
>> >> <param-value>/WEB-INF/toolbox.xml</param-value>
>> >> </init-param>
>> >> </servlet>
>> >>
>> >> <servlet-mapping>
>> >> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
>> >> <url-pattern>*.vm</url-pattern>
>> >> </servlet-mapping>
>> >
>> > looks good
>> >
>> >> 3) Created the toolbox.xml file in WEB-INF dir with this content:
>> >>
>> >> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> >> <toolbox>
>> >> <tool>
>> >> <key>link</key>
>> >> <scope>request</scope>
>> >> <class>
>> >> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.StrutsLinkTool
>> >> </class>
>> >> </tool>
>> >> <tool>
>> >> <key>msg</key>
>> >> <scope>request</scope>
>> >> <class>
>> >> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.MessageTool
>> >> </class>
>> >> </tool>
>> >> <tool>
>> >> <key>errors</key>
>> >> <scope>request</scope>
>> >> <class>
>> >> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.ErrorsTool
>> >> </class>
>> >> </tool>
>> >> <tool>
>> >> <key>form</key>
>> >> <scope>request</scope>
>> >> <class>
>> >> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.FormTool
>> >> </class>
>> >> </tool>
>> >> <tool>
>> >> <key>tiles</key>
>> >> <scope>request</scope>
>> >> <class>
>> >> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool
>> >> </class>
>> >> </tool>
>> >> <tool>
>> >> <key>validator</key>
>> >> <scope>request</scope>
>> >> <class>
>> >> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.ValidatorTool
>> >> </class>
>> >> </tool>
>> >> </toolbox>
>> >
>> > looks good.
>> >
>> >> 4) Created an example index.vm file with only this code:
>> >>
>> >> <html>
>> >> <head>
>> >> <title>$msg.get("label.portal.welcome")</title>
>> >> </head>
>> >> <body bgcolor="white">
>> >>
>> >> </body>
>> >> </html>
>> >
>> > looks fine, but you can simplify it a bit by changing
>> >
>> > $msg.get("label.portal.welcome") -> $msg.label.portal.welcome
>> >
>> >> label.portal.welcome is defined on my ApplicationResource.properties
>> >> struts
>> >> file.
>> >>
>> >> When I access the index file I get the following error:
>> >>
>> >> VelocityViewServlet : Error processing a template for path
>> >> '/jsp/index.vm'
>> >>
>> >> java.lang.NullPointerException
>> >> at
>> >> org.apache.velocity.io.VelocityWriter.write(VelocityWriter.java:319)
>> >> at
>> >
>> > i don't remember the exact trigger for this, but this is a bug which
>> > has been fixed in Velocity 1.5-beta2.
>> >
>> > <snip/>
>> >>
>> >> So I pretty sure I've missed a step or two when setting Velocity up :)
>> >
>> > i'm not sure. do you have logging setup?
>> >
>> >> Also, I would like to know how do I replace velocity tags with
>> database
>> >> values I retrieve on my action classes.
>> >
>> > in your action, put those database values into the HttpServletRequest
>> > attributes:
>> >
>> > request.setAttribute("myDBValue", myDBValue);
>> >
>> > then, in your template, just do:
>> >
>> > $myDBValue
>> >
>> >
>> >> Thanks
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