Velocity talks @ ApacheCon

[Will Glass-Husain <wg...@forio.com>]

Howdy,

I just got a note that the ApacheCon (www.apachecon.com) early bird
registration deadline is Wednesday.  I wanted to let Velocity users know
that there are two Velocity-related sessions at the conference (13 Nov to 17
Nov).

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JAKARTA VELOCITY - AN OVERVIEW
Henning Schmiedehausen

Jakarta Velocity is an exciting alternative to the ubiquitous Java Server
pages, that dominate the View portion of web based applications written in
Java. Their integration in popular projects like Struts gave a wider
audience access to these technologies. This talk gives an overview over the
features of Velocity as a templating language. Some code examples show the
integration with your own Java applications and using Velocity as View part
for Struts and Turbine is demonstrated.

HACKING VELOCITY
Will Glass-Husain

Velocity, the popular Jakarta templating language, can be used "out of the
box" to produce dynamic HTML, generate code, and for a variety of other
purposes. But what if you want to customize the Velocity language or
environment? This session provides tips for the intermediate to advanced
Velocity developer on how to provide additional functionality to your
Velocity users. The following topics will be covered. All of these
enhancements can be done without recompiling the Velocity jar files.
- Increasing developer productivity with the Velocity-Tools subproject
- Addding new template control statements with a custom directive
- Loading your templates with a custom resourceloader
- Creating a secure Velocity hosting service with a custom introspector

If time allows, we'll discuss how to change the language syntax itself by
using JavaCC and recompiling Velocity.

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Hope to see some of you there.

Best,
WILL
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Forio Business Simulations

Will Glass-Husain
wglass@forio.com
www.forio.com


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