It's not something i can use yet, and i wasn't able to get the source in any form. But the javadoc makes it look thorough, and this is certainly something that has been sorely missing from Spring integration. In general, it sounds great. But why GPL? That's prohibitive for us in future spring/velocity projects. Apache or BSD licensing would be great. :)
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Christopher Townson <christopher.town...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought some on this list might like to know about a small "glue > library" I wrote recently as a programming exercise for integrating > Velocity with Spring and released on GPL for any interested parties: > > http://christophertownson.com/projects/spring-velocity/ > > I have often thought that the integration with Velocity currently > provided by Spring, whilst adequate, could be significantly improved > -- and this is my attempt to do so. > > I had 4 main aims in this exercise: > > 1. Support the changes to Velocity & Velocity Tools (esp. tools) since > 1.5 and 2.0 (new toolbox format, no deprecation messages etc) > > 2. Provide a standard, Spring-style means to utilise Spring context > support to augment velocity tools infrastructure (@ViewHelper > annotation as a component stereotype which can have a Spring @Scope > specified automatically added to Velocity context) > > 3. Most importantly: work nicely with ContentNegotiatingViewResolver > so that a single velocity-based Spring View can be used to generate > multiple text-based formats simply by dropping in additional templates > (+ specifying in ContentNegotiatingViewResolver's mediaTypes map) > > 4. Get all of the above to work transparently, out-of-the-box via > annotations, and correctly determine what sort of "context" the app is > running in (e.g. web app [access to servlet context] or plain token > replacer with/without toolbox) > > Any thoughts or feedback would be most welcome ... and, of course, > feel free to use! > > All the best, > > Chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
