Thank you so much Nathan. I have spent much time today reading and rereading
your words and looking at the code.
I think I understand now. Thank you for taking the time to explain it.
In general I had been doing things a little bit wrong, but it used to work in
1.4. Now it doesn't.
I need to figure out now how to get the instance of the VelocityViewServelet
for use in my email template merger. Not sure how to do it but looking around.
I had another problem that I think can help others in the future. In looking
through the archives I noticed other people having the same null pointer
exception I was having. I went through the code and noticed that if a person
did not "init()" a velocity engine, the resourceManager never gets initialized.
When they call the function below in RuntimeInstance.java, they get the null
pointer exception.
public Template getTemplate(String name, String encoding)
throws ResourceNotFoundException, ParseErrorException, Exception
{
return (Template)
resourceManager.getResource(name,
ResourceManager.RESOURCE_TEMPLATE, encoding);
}
I think once I figure out how to get the VVS and use that for my templating,
things will just work again with 1.5.
Thank you so much both of you for your patience and help.
JohnE
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