Velocity Framework
What is Velocity Framework?
Velocity is a Java based template engine.It permits anyone to use a simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code.Velocity is inspired from 'WebMacro' , an alternative to JSP,PHP and ASP( www.webmacro.org).
Where can Velocity be used?
Velocity framework can be used in following areas:
- Web apps, dynamic HTML pages are created and processed with VelocityViewServlet or number of frameworks that support Velocity
- Source code generation
- Automatic e-mails
- XML transformation, provides an ant task called Anakia which reads an XML file and makes it available to a Velocity template.
What are the features of Velocity?
Velocity framework has following features:
- Velocity is MVC based
- It segregates HTML template code from Java code
- It emphasizes on role based web app development
- Velocity offers better maintainable web applications
How Velocity works?
When using Velocity in an application program or in a servlet (or anywhere, actually), you will generally do the following :
- Initialize Velocity. This applies to both usage patterns for Velocity, the Singleton as well as the 'separate runtime instance', and you only do this once.
- Create a Context object.
- Add your data objects to the Context.
- Choose a template.
- 'Merge' the template and your data to produce the output.
An Emailing template creation using Velocity framework
Velocity With XML
Velocity is a Java based template engine.It permits anyone to use a simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code.Velocity is inspired from 'WebMacro' , an alternative to JSP,PHP and ASP( www.webmacro.org).
Where can Velocity be used?
Velocity framework can be used in following areas:
- Web apps, dynamic HTML pages are created and processed with VelocityViewServlet or number of frameworks that support Velocity
- Source code generation
- Automatic e-mails
- XML transformation, provides an ant task called Anakia which reads an XML file and makes it available to a Velocity template.
What are the features of Velocity?
Velocity framework has following features:
- Velocity is MVC based
- It segregates HTML template code from Java code
- It emphasizes on role based web app development
- Velocity offers better maintainable web applications
How Velocity works?
When using Velocity in an application program or in a servlet (or anywhere, actually), you will generally do the following :
- Initialize Velocity. This applies to both usage patterns for Velocity, the Singleton as well as the 'separate runtime instance', and you only do this once.
- Create a Context object.
- Add your data objects to the Context.
- Choose a template.
- 'Merge' the template and your data to produce the output.
An Emailing template creation using Velocity framework
Velocity With XML
