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Velocity v1.3.1 Released
> | Version 1.3.1 of the Velocity Template Engine is available. (2003-03-31)
Velocity News
User's Guide Now Available in French Thanks to the translation contributed by Jean-Francois El Fouly, the Velocity project can now offer the User's Guide in French. Thanks! (2002-06-17) New Release : Maverick Another new release in the Velocity 'powered-by' family - The Maverick team is happy to announce the version 2.1 release of the Maverick MVC Framework. (2002-06-12) User's Guide Now Available in Spanish Thanks to the translation contributed by Juan Pablo Morales Olaya, the Velocity project can now offer the User's Guide in Spanish. Thanks! (2002-06-06) New Release : vDoclet Another new milestone release in the Velocity 'powered-by' family : vDoclet 20020422 Check it out!(2002-06-06) New Releases : Turbine, WebWork and JPublish A few new releases in the Velocity family : Turbine 2.2-b1 WebWork 1.0 JPublish 0.9 Check 'em out!(2002-03-23) JeeWiz : The Enterprise System Builder JeeWiz, a new product from New Technology/enterprise Limited, is a J2EE system development tool that uses Velocity templates to generate infrastructure code, deployment descriptors and build jobs for J2EE projects. And it's said Velocity has no place in J2EE... ;-) (2002-03-09) User's Guide Available in Finnish Thanks to Juha Kilpi, we now offer a Finnish translation to the Velocity Users Guide. Thanks Juha! (2002-01-27) Velocity Tool Subproject The first code for the new Velocity Tool Subproject is in and can be found in CVS as jakarta-velocity-tools. The first functionality includes integration with Jakarta Struts as well as a generic template-rendering servlet with tool support. Take a look! (2002-01-03) Introductory Velocity Article on JavaWorld For a introduction to the Velocity Template Engine, a brief overview of the Velocity Template Language and some basic examples, see is the new article on JavaWorld by Geir Magnusson Jr. (2001-12-28) DVSL XML Transformation Tool Added as Subproject The DVSL XML transformation tool has been added as a new subproject. Check it out here.(2001-12-18) Velocity mentioned in ZDNet Article (last May) It seems we could be a "can't-live-without-it piece of the infrastructure" of tomorrow. Check it out. (2001-12-09) Luxor, Velocity-based XUL Toolkit Released Luxor is an open-source XML User Interface Language (XUL) toolkit for Java. Read more here. (2001-12-08) Generate Code with Velocity in Borland's JBuilder Read about how to use Velocity and Borland's OpenTools API to extend Borland's JBuilder for template-based Java source code generation. (2001-12-08) Archived articles are here.
What is Velocity?
Velocity is a Java-based template engine. It permits anyone to use the simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code. When Velocity is used for web development, Web designers can work in parallel with Java programmers to develop web sites according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) model, meaning that web page designers can focus solely on creating a site that looks good, and programmers can focus solely on writing top-notch code. Velocity separates Java code from the web pages, making the web site more maintainable over the long run and providing a viable alternative to Java Server Pages (JSPs) or PHP. Velocity's capabilities reach well beyond the realm of web sites; for example, it can generate SQL and PostScript and XML (see Anakia for more information on XML transformations) from templates. It can be used either as a standalone utility for generating source code and reports, or as an integrated component of other systems. Velocity also provides template services for the Turbine web application framework. Velocity+Turbine provides a template service that allows web applications to be developed according to a true MVC model.
Where do I get releases?
The current release version is version 1.3, but there is a known bug. Using the 1.3.1 release candidate is suggested. The fix was minor, and is being released as a release candidate for a short period for final validation by users. The release distribution is available in both `tar.gz` and `zip` formats, and is found here. The release candidate distribution is available in both `tar.gz` and `zip` formats, and is found here.
Where do I get nightly snapshots?
Nightly snapshots of the Velocity CVS can be found here. These are meant to provide easy access to the actual project CVS tree. As this is our live development workspace, there are no guarantees as to what you will find there,although we do our best to maintain a buildable source tree. If you are looking for the stable supported release, please use the current release of Velocity. If you are willing to risk getting dirty, we invite you to try the nightly snapshot to see the current state of affairs (and help out!) Public CVS access is also available.
How do I contribute, give feedback, fix bugs and so on?
The Velocity project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation help, source code and feedback. Suggested changes should come in the form of source code and/or very detailed and constructive feedback. There is a list of Active Developers. Submit some code and get your name added! Discussion occurs on the Velocity mailing list. Access to the CVS jakarta-velocity repository is available both online and with a cvs client.
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