Mike said:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm not on the list, just new to Velocity and liking it a LOT--especially
> the Struts implementation!  It really takes care of many of the problems
> inherent in web designers trying to make sense of STRUTS tag-filled JSP
> code.

:)

> One question--I'm running into problems reading velocity (1.3) properties
> in a WAR file.  When deploying in Tomcat 4.1/JBOSS 3, I get this error:
>
> 10:33:13,043 INFO [Engine] Unable to read Velocity configuration file:
> java.io. FileNotFoundException: \velocity.properties (The system cannot
> find the file specified)
....
> From a WAR in Tomcat, getServletContext().getRealPath(...) returns *null*.
> The appropriate way to load properties appears to be via getResource()
> instead of getRealPath().
>
> Is anyone working on this or is there some other non-code workaround?  If
> not, I don't mind hopping on board and taking it on, but it does appear
> from your web site that development has slowed (i.e., 1.3.1 RC2 has been
> out since last July).  Are you planning a forthcoming release soon into
> which this sort of change might possibly be incorporated?

hey mike, feel free to hop on board and offer a patch.  if you can't get a
response/patch application from the Velocity-proper developers, then we'll
try and at least get this fixed for Velocity-Tools users by overriding it in
the VelocityViewServlet.  (hopefully it won't be needed though).

as for a 1.3.1 release of Velocity, we all hope it happens soon, but it will
probably require some activity from Geir--a busy man.

we are, however, actively working toward a Velocity-Tools release in the
hopefully-not-too-distant future.

Nathan Bubna
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