Pro Jakarta Velocity: From Professional to Expert

I can strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in Velocity. For anyone not interested in Velocity…why not?

— Thomas Paul, JavaRanch Sheriff

Nearly any application you build requires some form of output. And the output format may change on a regular basiswhich can lead to a heavy maintenance burden and a restrictive test cycle. But by utilizing the power of the Velocity template engine, you can integrate templated output into your application, decoupling the application logic from the output format.

Pro Jakarta Velocity: From Professional to Expert leads leads you immediately toward configuration and setup, all the way to full-blown application development. This is not merely a book about web developmentas the multipurpose Velocity does more than replace JSP. Instead, this book demonstrates many of these alternative Velocity uses. This in-depth book also shows you how to integrate Velocity development and use it with other open-source frameworks and tools such as Spring and Apache Struts.

About The Author
Rob Harrop is a software consultant specializing in delivering high-performance, highly-scalable enterprise applications. He is an experienced architect with a particular flair for understanding and solving complex design issues. With a thorough knowledge of both Java and .NET, Harrop has successfully deployed projects across both platforms. He also has extensive experience across a variety of sectors, retail and government in particular.



Harrop is the author of five books, including Pro Spring, a widely-acclaimed, comprehensive resource on the Spring Framework.



Harrop has been a core developer of the Spring Framework since June 2004 and currently leads the JMX and AOP efforts. He co-founded UK-based software company, Cake Solutions, in May 2001, having spent the previous two years working as Lead Developer for a successful dotcom start-up. Rob is a member of the JCP and is involved in the JSR-255 Expert Group for JMX 2.0.

Reader Reviews
This is an excellent introduction to the Velocity template engine. It covers the basic use and syntax of the engine, then embedding and extending it. It's very well written and organized. On the downside I think the graphics could have been used more effectively, and I would have liked to have seen more on the basic template syntax. Overall, however, I highly recommend this book to anyone for whom the Velocity template engine is a central part of the architecture.