[Springframework-developer] Velocity Tools

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Dear Spring/Velocity users,
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I've updated our VelocityView to Velocity Tools 1.1 RC1: There's not =
only an optional "dateToolAttribute" (Velocity Tools 1.0) now but also a =
"numberToolAttribute" (new in 1.1). Both are automatically exposed as =
locale-aware subclasses, so that they are aware of the current =
Spring-managed request locale.
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Such helper classes are long overdue: I never understood why standard =
Velocity does not provide any means for such important tasks as date and =
number formatting. Particularly in face of the nice formatting options =
that the JSTL offers for JSP, it's good to see that there shouldn't be a =
need to code one's own formatting helpers for Velocity anymore.
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In general, I wonder why the Velocity project is moving so slowly. It =
took them over half a year to move from 1.3.1 RC1 to 1.3.1 final. =
Velocity Tools 1.1 final could easily have been released last autumn: =
After all, it's just a couple of straightforward, pretty simple hellper =
classes. This definitely doesn't help in terms of Velocity adoption.
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Juergen
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