Never mind the previous question its working now.
Royal Media Group 261 5th Ave. Suite 412 New York, NY 10016 www.banknet360.com (212) 564-8972 x102 "It's not what you do, it's how you do it" -----Original Message----- From: Edward Song [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:30 AM To: 'Velocity Users List' Subject: RE: Web App and template .vm Hi, I have somewhat of a related question. I would like to integrate VelocityViewServlet or VelocityStruts with my current application. My web application currently runs struts 1.2 as its web framework. I currently am using Velocity to generate XML files to be written to the server and generate emails to be sent to users. My current configuration has Velocity running as a "general application". With this style of configuration I need to specify an absolute path to my templates rather than using a relative directory path from my Web Root directory to locate my velocity templates (.vm). I also call Velocity.init() during application startup, to initialize the velocity engine. I feel that there may be another way of doing things. Am I doing something wrong in not leveraging the VelocityViewServlet, as some of the objects written out will be stored in the HttpServletRequest, HttpSession, ServletContext, as well as other benefits such as GenericTools, etc. The reason I chose not to use VelocityViewServlet or VelocityStruts, is because I am not using Velocity to create my presentation, rather I use JSP's, JSTL, etc. I use Velocity to solely generate the text/HTML email string, and generate XML data files on my server. The VelocityViewServlet is tightly coupled with the HTTPResponse object, and I want to stay inside struts for the most part. That is why I chose to use Velocity as a general application, which does work fine for my case. However, everytime, I post from test to production, you can think of the headaches that come with absolute path configuration and it doesn't take advantage of tomcat deployment architecture. So, is there a way I can utilize VelocityViewServlet and Velocity Struts without having it so tightly binded to the presentation layer? All I want to do is specify relative paths for my velocity configurations and have the ability to call Velocity.mergeTemplate(). Are these steps correct? 1) Add to Web.xml <servlet> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet</s ervlet-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/config/velocity.properties</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>10</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.vm</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> 2) Make sure toolbox.xml and velocity.properties are in the proper locations. In velocity.properties relative paths from the Web Root directory are valid. That's just an assumption I have. 3) Start the application. What I see is kind of weird. What I had hoped to happen was that Velocity.init(properties) would be called when my application launched. This way hopefully I can use velocity throughout my app, and use relative paths to my web root directory. It seems to me that the engine never started as I see no log file for velocity. What am I doing wrong? Regards, Edward Song -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Bubna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:46 AM To: Velocity Users List Subject: Re: Web App and template .vm Have you read: http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/webapps.html? if you are using the VelocityViewServlet with its default properties, then you just put the template files in the root directory of the webapp and it will find them there. On 1/22/06, Graham Renney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am struggling to get a web app to see the .vm template file unless I > place it in a physical location such as d:/template.vm and point the > velocity engine to that location. What I want to do is place it in my > war - but velocity does not find the template. 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