[Springframework-developer] Velocity configuration patch (MVC framework)

[<dar...@hs...>]

I know you guys are busy with imminent package renames and releases, so
apologies in advance if this is the wrong time to be sending patches!

Attached is a class that extends
com.interface21.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityConfigurer in order to
permit velocity templates to be portably loaded from within the WAR without
having them in the source tree (and thereby the classpath).  The overridden
initApplicationContext() method prefixes the template path root with the
real path to the WAR root.  The javadoc for the class should make it clear.

In order for this to work, the superclass (VelocityConfigurer) needs to
have the location field promoted from private to protected.  The only
alternative would be to override the setLocation() method in
WarVelocityConfigurer too which is the wrong way to do it I think.  The
very trivial patch file for this change is also attached.

The code relies on the web container using exploded WAR files.  Tomcat and
WebSphere both do by default, but I'm not sure that WebLogic does.

Both changes are based on the 0.9 release (I've no access to CVS at present
to see if updates are available to this part of Spring) and have been
tested successfully in the following locations:

WebSphere 4.0.4 on Windows
WebSphere 5.0 on Windows
Tomcat 4.1.18 on Windows
Tomcat 4.1.24 on Linux

Regards,

Darren Davison
CIBM Intranet Team
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(See attached file: WarVelocityConfigurer.java)(See attached file:
VelocityConfigurer.patch)


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