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javaspring-mvcvelocityclassnotfoundexception

Using Velocity Tools with Spring 3.0.3

When I update the bean:

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver">
  <property name="cache" value="true"/>
  <property name="prefix" value=""/>
  <property name="suffix" value=".vm"/>
  <property name="toolboxConfigLocation" value="tools.xml" />
</bean>

With the tools.xml path for Velocity Tools, I get:

Caused by: 
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.velocity.tools.view.ToolboxManager

I've tried plugging in tools version 2 and 1.4, neither have this package structure. Did I miss something obvious? What version of Velocity Tools is the Spring/Velocity component supporting?

Solution

  • Spring has very outdated Velocity support by default. I extend VelocityView class from Spring and override createVelocityContext method where I initialize Tools myself. Here is how it looks at the end.