http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/developer-guide.html#Using%20Velocity%20In%20General%20Applications
See the below example (abridged) for something basic.
public void init(ServletContext ctx)
{
VelocityEngine ve = new VelocityEngine();ve.setProperty("file.resource.loader.path",ctx.getRealPath("WEB-INF/email_templates")); ve.setProperty(RuntimeConstants.RUNTIME_LOG_LOGSYSTEM_CLASS,"org.apache.velocity.runtime.log.SimpleLog4JLogSystem");
ve.setProperty("runtime.log.logsystem.log4j.category","org.apache.velocity.tenant"); ve.init(); ctx.setAttribute(V_ATTRIBUTE,ve);}/** * Send an email to the specified address using the appropriate Velocitytemplate. * @param toAddress * @param BaseFileName indicates the velocity templates to use.
* The HTML template is the BaseFileName with ".html" appended and thetext template is the BaseFileName with ".txt" appended. */public void sendTemplateEmail (ServletContext ctx, Map ViewParams,UsertoContact, User ccContact, String subject, String BaseFileName) throwsAppException {
VelocityEngine ve = (VelocityEngine) ctx.getAttribute(V_ATTRIBUTE); Context c = new VelocityContext(ViewParams); String htmlFile = BaseFileName + ".htm"; String txtFile = BaseFileName + ".txt"; String htmlMsg = null; String txtMsg = null; try { if (ve.templateExists(htmlFile)) { Template t1 =
ve.getTemplate(htmlFile); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); t1.merge(c,writer); htmlMsg = writer.toString(); } } catch (ParseErrorException E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template file.",E); } catch (MethodInvocationException E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template
file.",E); } catch (ResourceNotFoundException E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template file.",E); } catch (Exception E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template file.",E); } try { if (ve.templateExists(txtFile)) { Template t1 = ve.getTemplate(txtFile); StringWriter writer
= new StringWriter(); t1.merge(c,writer); txtMsg = writer.toString(); } } catch (ParseErrorException E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template file.",E); } catch (MethodInvocationException E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template file.",E); } catch (ResourceNotFoundException
E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template file.",E); } catch (Exception E ) { throw new AppException("Error in template file.",E); } sendEmail(toContact,ccContact,subject,htmlMsg,txtMsg);}----- Original Message -----From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Velocity Users List"
<velocity-user@jakarta.apache.org>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 5:01 PMSubject: Re: Problem with decimal in most recent snapshot>> Exactly.>> But the real hard part is that though it is good the seperation, mostusers will still likely be web app people like me.>> I am not seeing a good
solution for getting a web app to do String (email)templating easily.>> JohnE>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
