Client and server-side templating with Velocity

By Sing Li
2004-06-13


Resources
• Download the source code for this article.

• For the latest version of the Velocity templating engine, associated documentation, mailing lists, and community news, visit the official Velocity site.

• You can download the VelocityView servlet, VelocityStruts for Struts integration, and several other tools from the Velocity tools subproject.

• The Struts MVC framework is a very popular open-source framework for creating Web applications. Velocity can be used as the view technology for Struts, alongside JSP technology.

• Turbine is an open-source MVC framework designed from scratch to work well with Velocity as the view component technology.

• See how to integrate Struts, Tiles, and Java Server Faces in this September 2003 developerWorks article by Srikanth Shenoy and Nithin Mallya.

• To use WebSphere Studio V5 to create Struts-based Web applications, check out this series of articles by Colin Yu and Jane Fung (November 2003).

• Visit the Developer Bookstore for a comprehensive listing of technical books, including hundreds of Java-related titles.

• Find hundreds of articles about every aspect of Java programming in the developerWorks Java technology zone.

Tutorial Pages:
» Client and server-side templating with Velocity
» Basic template engine operation
» Velocity contexts
» Velocity as a standalone parser
» Velocity vs. JSP technology on the server
» Deploying Velocity with Tomcat 5
» Interoperating with the Struts framework
» Conclusions
» Resources


First published by IBM developerWorks

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