Anakia is an XML text transformation tool based on Apache Velocity and Apache Ant. It provides an alternative to using Ant's style task and XSL to process XML files. A common use of Anakia is to process xdoc files and create site/project documentation. More information on Anakia can be found here: http://velocity.apache.org/anakia/releases/anakia-1.0/

Texen is a general-purpose text generation utility, also based on Apache Velocity and Apache Ant. More information is here: http://velocity.apache.org/texen/releases/texen-1.0/

Both Anakia and Texen were previously part of the core Velocity engine distribution but have been split off into their own packages to simplify maintenance and facilitate different release cycles. To avoid namespace conflict, org.apache.velocity .anakia has been moved to org.apache.anakiaand org.apache.velocity.texen has been changed to org.apache.texen.

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It is intended to help creating high-quality documentation in the Docbook format which can be used online or as PDF for print out.

Downloads and documentation are available from http://velocity.apache.org/docbook/

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Apache Velocity is well-known in the Java field as a lightweight, easy-to-use templating library for creating dynamic web sites and performing other text-generation tasks.

Besides improved template syntax and a slew of bug fixes, this release offers a range of features that enhance peformance and ease the process of integration with other applications and web frameworks. A few highlights:

• Improved syntax with new capability for decimal numbers, literal map definitions, multi-line statements, and support for automatic escaping of HTML and other special entities.
• New capabilities to aid integration with other applications and web frameworks, including enhanced error reporting, a new logging subsystem, and a switch to unchecked instead of checked exceptions.
• Correction of several important scalability problems, including a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache implementation and a fix to a nasty race condition that could occur under heavy load conditions.
• Almost all known bugs have been fixed, including issues with macro recursion, a SQL injection vulnerability, several memory leaks and compile-time incompatibilities with Java 1.5 and 1.6.

Detailed release notes are available at: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/Velocity15ReleaseNotes

Apache Velocity 1.5 is downloadable from the Apache Velocity web site.

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There have been many improvements made since the 1.2 release. A key focus in this version has been ease of use. We've simplified developing your own tools by eliminating the ViewTool and Configurable interfaces, and we've simplified the syntax for using many of our existing tools within Velocity templates to both save keystrokes and reduce visual clutter.

The distribution also comes with a new showcase example webapp that demonstrates many of the uses of the various tools as well as allowing you to interactively play with them. Just download the binary distribution, and deploy the "showcase.war" example to your servlet container to try it out.

Also included are the usual slate of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, entirely new tools, and new functions for existing tools. For a full listing of changes, see the change log.

http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/changes.html

VelocityTools 1.3 is available in either source or binary form at:

http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi#tools

For more information about VelocityTools go to:

http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/index.html

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