Great feature set and release guys.
Well done.
regards Malcolm Edgar
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:20 PM, jian chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow, that's great. Thanks so much for the improvements. We are currently
> using 1.4, so instead of upgrading to 1.5, we are going to evaluate 1.6 now.
>
> Much appreciated!
>
> Jian
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Nathan Bubna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The Apache Velocity Team announces the immediate availability of the
>> of Apache Velocity Engine 1.6. This release is fully compatible with
>> the previous release and includes significant improvements in
>> performance, stability and features.
>>
>> Apache Velocity is well-known in the Java field as a lightweight,
>> easy-to-use templating library for creating dynamic web sites and
>> performing other text-generation tasks.
>>
>> Much work in this release has gone to making significant improvements
>> in the memory usage and speed of Velocity. Apart from this, a number
>> of small parser bugs were fixed, tempate/line/column information in
>> error messages has been corrected and made consistent, and many new
>> features were added. Many of the latter are listed below:
>>
>> * There are three new directives:
>> - #evaluate takes a single string of VTL as an argument and renders it.
>> - #define is a cousin of #macro, that lets define a reference that
>> represents the body of the directive, which is then evaluated when the
>> reference is used.
>> - #break lets you exit a #foreach loop early.
>>
>> * There are reflection improvements:
>> - You may now call JDK 1.5 vararg methods on your tools and other
>> references with variable arguments.
>> - You can put a static utility class directly into the context and
>> be able to call its methods; no instance necessary. (e.g.
>> context.put("Math", java.util.Math.class))
>> - If you have a reference that is an array, you can now call
>> fixed-length list methods on it. (e.g. $array.size() and
>> $array.get($index) )
>> - There is now support for chaining and linking Uberspect
>> implementations to simplify custom introspection.
>>
>> * The underlying Velocimacro code has been refactored to allow:
>> - Much, much better performance than Velocity 1.5
>> - #parse( 'mymacros.vm' ) to work as expected!!
>> - macro libraries to be programatically included when calling
>> template.merge(...)
>> - users to configure a velocimacro.max.depth property (to limit
>> recursion et al)
>>
>> * CommonsLogLogChute and ServletLogChute are now available without
>> including VelocityTools
>>
>> * The StringResourceLoader has undergone major refactoring to make it
>> much more user-friendly and flexible.
>>
>> * There is now an automatic $velocityHasNext reference in #foreach loops
>>
>> * You can now configure the connection timeout for URLResourceLoader
>> (JDK 1.5+ only)
>>
>> Documentation Velocity 1.6 can be found here:
>> http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.6/
>>
>> The change log is here:
>>
>> http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.6/changes-report.html
>>
>> Apache Velocity 1.6 can be downloaded here:
>> http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi
>>
>> For the Apache Velocity Team
>> Nathan Bubna
>>
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