Velocity 101

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        // The most basic use of the Velocity library. You pass in a Velocity context
// containing key-value pairs and the name of a Velocity template file. It
// returns a string containing the boilerplate text generated from combining
// the two.

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package com.johnmunsch.util;

import java.io.StringWriter;

import org.apache.log4j.*;
import org.apache.velocity.*;
import org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity;
import org.apache.velocity.exception.*;

/**
 * Boilerplate puts together context information and a template and produces an
 * output string that has all the replacements done in it.
 */
public class Boilerplate {
    private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(Boilerplate.class.getName());
    
    public static String apply(VelocityContext context,
            String templateFilename) throws Exception {
        Template template = null;
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

        Velocity.init();

        try {
            template = Velocity.getTemplate(templateFilename);

            template.merge(context, sw);
        } catch (ResourceNotFoundException rnfe) {
            log.error("Could not find the named template file.", rnfe);
            throw rnfe;
        } catch (ParseErrorException pee) {
            log.error("Error in the template file.", pee);
            throw pee;
        } catch (MethodInvocationException mie) {
            log.error("Error in function called by the template file.", mie);
            throw mie;
        }
       
        return sw.toString();
    }
}

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• boilerplate
• java
• template
• velocity