John Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Mike, thanks for the quick reply!
>
> Here is where i think all those beers from college are taking a toll =)
>
> ==> assumes your DateTool is named "date" <==
>
> Can in instantiate the tool from within the template? right now i am not
> putting the tool into the velocity context in my action servlet.
You'll probably be better off keeping the discussion on the list. I've been
known to give people mis-advice that has to be corrected by others :)
No, you have to pre-add tools to the context. You can either do this in
code (add it just like any other velocity context attribute -- nothing
special about a tool, it's just a java object assigned to an attribute) or
you can configure it via web.xml. You can probably also stick into a
session/request/application level attribute if you had to, but that's out of
my experience.
If you're using web.xml, it'd be something like this:
<!-- Define Velocity template compiler -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityLayoutServlet
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>org.apache.velocity.toolbox</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/toolbox.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>org.apache.velocity.properties</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/velocity.properties</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>10</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
Toolbox.xml looks something like this
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<toolbox>
<tool>
<key>date</key>
<scope>application</scope>
<class>org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.DateTool</class>
</tool>
</toolbox>
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