Re: [Springframework-developer] Velocity Tools

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Darren Davison wrote:

>>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.
>>    
>>
>
>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,
>
>  
>
I know of a number of cases of people moving to Freemarker from Velocity.

Not a migration, but the OfBiz project has actually been using Velocity 
very successfully for their 3.0 stream, and has been very happy with it.

Regards,
Colin