Velocity for Struts is a subproject of the Apache Velocity project. This is an example web application demonstrating the integration of the Struts web application framework with the Velocity template engine.

Highlights

• Velocity is now becoming an alternative view technology for Struts-based Web applications.
• Velocity templates can be mixed with JSP templates in the same application.
• No changes are required to Struts. This works with Struts 1.0, 1.01, 1.02 and the upcoming Struts 1.1.

Status

The API has been redesigned completely and is now more complete and more systematic. An early draft of several documentation pages is now available. Several projects are currently using the software. This is an unrealeased work in progress. New versions will be announced on the Velocity mailing list and home page.

Application Examples

Five small application examples have been included. Look at example 2 for a demonstration of the Velocity view tools for Struts. JSP versions of some of the examples have been included to allow a direct comparison of the two view technologies.

Documentation

This project is hosted at http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/toolsubproject.html. There you find the latest news and instructions to download the software.

An early draft of the documentation is available online. This is a work in progress but I guess it is better than no documentation at all.

Tested Configuration

• Tomcat 4.01, Resin 2.1.0
• Netscape 4.7, MS Explorer 5.5
• JDK 1.3.1, JDK 1.4.0
• Ant 1.4.1
• Jakarta Struts 1.0.2 Binary Library Distribution
• Jakarta Velocity 1.3 dev with dependencies
• Jakarta Servlet API 4 (same as distributed with Tomcat 4)

Feedback

We really appreciated your feedback. Please send your feedback and questions to the Velocity Users Mailing List at velocity-user@jakarta.apache.org.