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provide access to underlying VelocityEngine instance of Velocity class

           Summary: provide access to underlying VelocityEngine instance of
                    Velocity class
           Product: Velocity
           Version: 1.3.1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Source
        AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


It would be nice to be able to access the underlying VelocityEngine instance to
which the Velocity facade class delegates. That way i can have logic that either
uses a default application-wide velocity config or a specific one, i.e.

public class AppConfig {
  public void init (...) {
    // init app-wide velocity 
    Velocity.init (..);
  }
}

public class Foo {
  private VelocityEngine m_engine;

  public void init (String velConfigFile, ...) {
    ..
    if (velConfigFile != null) {
      m_engine = new VelocityEngine ();
      m_engine.init (velConfigFile);
    } else {
      m_engine = Velocity.getEngine ();
    }
  }

  // other methods use m_engine
}

As it is now, to do something like this you'd have to have everywhere you use
velocity the logic of

if (haveOwnConfig) {
  my_engine.merge (..);
} else {
  Velocity.merge (..);
}

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