Re: [Springframework-developer] Velocity Tools

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

> In general, I wonder why the Velocity project is moving so slowly. It t=
ook
> 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. T=
his
> definitely doesn't help in terms of Velocity adoption.

you're right.  In fact it has been remarked upon by less kind people that
Velocity is dead.  The site says they are working on a 1.5 branch but the
CVS repository shows very few changes to any source code in the last year=
.
 At the end of the day, it's not a major problem for most users.  It's a
stable tool that does a specific job fairly well - most of my tests
suggest it's still ahead of JSP in performance terms and the majority of
graphic designers (IME) prefer it to an xml-based sytax.

I think though that they may have lost some mindshare (if not some
developers) to FreeMarker.  On which note, if no-one else is intending to
do it, I'm planning on looking at a FreeMarker integration along similar
lines to the Velocity integration for Spring 1.1

Regards,

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Darren Davison
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