I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here: I can't get
Velocity/Tomcat to serve up a template. The Template and the Login are
virtually the example servlet. Near as I can figure, someone in
Template.merge() is throwing an empty Exception. (Thanks in advance.)
Build: Apache-Velocity-20010117
==============Template===============
<html>
<head><title>Sample velocity page</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<center>
<h2>Hello from velocity!</h2>
<i>Here's the list of people</i>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="center">
Names
</td>
</tr>
#foreach ($name in $theList)
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#eeeeee">$name</td>
</tr>
#end
</table>
</center>
</html>
==================================
========Servlet=====================
public class LoginServlet extends VelocityServlet
{
public Template handleRequest( Context ctx )
{
Template tmplReturn = null;
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)ctx.get("req");
String errorMessage = request.getQueryString();
if ( errorMessage.length() > 0 )
{
ctx.put("inputError", errorMessage );
}
String p1 = "Ivan";
String p2 = "Jen";
Vector personList = new Vector();
personList.addElement( p1 );
personList.addElement( p2 );
ctx.put("theList", personList );
try
{
// Get the template
tmplReturn = getTemplate("webapps/BUCValuProf/login.vm");
}
catch( Exception e )
{
System.out.println("Error " + e);
}
return tmplReturn;
}
}
===============================================
=======What I get back============================
<html><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><h2>Error processing the
template</h2>null</body></html>
===============================================
==========velocity log is no help to me=================
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Default Properties File:
org/apache/velocity/runtime/defaults/velocity.properties
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
runtime.log =
/opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/BUCValuProf/WEB-INF/logs/velocity.log
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.loader = org.apache.velocity.runtime.loader.FileTemplateLoader
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
counter.initial.value = 1
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
counter.name = velocityCounter
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.path = /opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/BUCValuProf
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
default.contentType = text/html
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.modificationCheckInterval = 2
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.asciihack = false
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.encoding = UTF8
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.cache = false
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Log file being used is:
/opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/BUCValuProf/WEB-INF/logs/velocity.log
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Resource Loader Instantiated:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Resources Loaded From:
/opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Resource Loader Initialized.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Literal
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Macro
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Parse
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Include
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Created: 20 parsers.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : initialization
starting.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : adding VMs from
global VM library template : VM_global_library.vm
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Attempting to find
VM_global_library.vm with
org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [error] FileResourceLoader Error: cannot
find resource /opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/./VM_global_library.vm
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [error] java.lang.Exception: Can't find
VM_global_library.vm!
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : global VM library
template macro registration complete.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : no local VM library
template used.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : allowInline = true :
VMs can be defined inline in templates
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro :
allowInlineToOverride = false : VMs defined inline may NOT replace
previous VM definitions
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : allowInlineLocal =
false : VMs defined inline will be global in scope if allowed.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : messages on : VM
system will output information messages
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : initialization
complete.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocity successfully started.
======================================================================
(Tomcat logs are equally uninformative.)
