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Posted to dev@velocity.apache.org by jc...@locus.apache.org on 2000/12/13 02:43:52 UTC
cvs commit: jakarta-velocity README.txt
jcastura 00/12/12 17:43:52
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examples/ This is where the examples live.
src/ This is where all of the source code to Velocity lives.
+REQUIREMENTS
+------------
+
+The Java 2 SDK is required to build Velocity.
+
BUILDING VELOCITY
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-In order to get started with Velocity, you must build it first.
+In order to get started with Velocity, you must first build it. To do so, cd into the
+build/ directory and execute the platform-specific build script.
-To build Velocity, simply cd into the build/ directory and type:
-
Unix:
./build-velocity.sh
Win32:
-.\build-velocity.bat
+build-velocity.bat
+
+This will create a bin/ directory containing the Velocity .jar file. Be sure to
+update your classpath to include Velocity's .jar file.
TRYING THE EXAMPLE
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