Is this done in handleRequest() ?
>
> Velocity.setApplicationAttribute("javax.servlet.ServletContext",
> config.getServletContext());
>
> // by default, load resources with webapp resource loader
> p.setProperty(RuntimeConstants.RESOURCE_LOADER, "webapp");
> p.setProperty("webapp.resource.loader.class",
> WebappLoader.class.getName());
>
>
> this will make the webapp root the default search path, but you can
> specify others (relative to the webapp root) using as many
> "webapp.resource.loader.path" properties as you like.
>
> > The only other thing you'll need is that you tell the servlet in your
> > web.xml where to find the default properties bundle:
> >
> > <servlet>
> > <servlet-name>getter</servlet-name>
> > <servlet-class>org.foo.bar.MyCustomVelocityServlet</servlet-class>
> > <init-param>
> > <param-name>org.apache.velocity.properties</param-name>
> > <param-value>/WEB-INF/velocity.properties</param-value>
> > </init-param>
> > <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
> > </servlet>
> >
Do i have to do this on a / servlet basis ? or can i just use a context param
since its the same for all my servlets ?
> > And the only thing I need in my velocity.properties is:
> >
> > runtime.log.logsystem.class=org.foo.bar.VelocityLogger
> >
> > Since I have a custom logger. The rest of the file loader stuff except
> > for the modfication interval you should just remove since I think those
> > are the defaults anyway, except for the path, which we're setting with
> > our loadConfiguration method.
> >
> > You might look at the implementation for the super loadConfiguration
> > method-- but it may require that velocity.properties actually end with a
> > ".properties" extension. I doubt it, but if you do all this and it
> > still seems your file is being ignored, try that.
> >
> > --jason
> >
> > Andrew Mason wrote:
> > >Ok, I know VelocityServlet is depricated in favour of the
> > > VelocityViewServlet but i started my web-app before VelocityServlet
> > > became deprecated so to keep consistency (for now) i'm using it.
> > >
> > >Anyway my problem is that my servlet can't seem to find my template.
> > > I've tried putting it in / , /obb, /obb/WEB-INF but it doesn't seem
> > > like it wants to pick it up at all. Also i'm not sure that its picking
> > > up the velocity.properties.fileloader file.
> > >
> > >I got around this problem in the other servlets by overwriting the
> > >loadConfig() and making a new instance of Property. This was fine until
> > > i actually wanted to specify some of my own and it would be handy to
> > > have them all in one place.
> > >
> > >thanks in advance
> > >
> > >public class EditPage extends VelocityServlet{
> > >
> > >
> > > public Template handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
> > > HttpServletResponse response,Context context) {
> > >
> > > // stuff in here
> > > //Merge the Template now
> > > try{
> > > String templateName="edit.vm";
> > > template = getTemplate(templateName);
> > > }
> > > catch(ResourceNotFoundException rnfe){
> > > System.out.println(templateName);
> > > rnfe.printStackTrace();
> > > }
> > > catch(Exception e){
> > > e.printStackTrace();
> > > }
> > > return template;
> > >
> > > }
> > >}
> > >
> > >and my directory structure works like this (slightly different to normal
> > > as it allows me to use mod_jk to map www.domain.com to / )
> > >
> > > -/myapp/
> > > /obb/
> > > WEB-INF/
> > > classes/
> > > lib/
> > > -
> > > velocity.properties.fileloader - web.xml
> > > - obb.war
> > > - edit.vm
> > > - index.vm
> > >
> > >
> > >velocity.properties.fileloader
> > >----------------
> > >
> > >resource.loader = file
> > >file.resource.loader.description = Velocity File Resource Loader
> > >file.resource.loader.class =
> > >org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
> > >file.resource.loader.path = .
> > >file.resource.loader.cache = false
> > >file.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval = 0
> > >
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