de.fuberlin.wiwiss.pubby.servlets

Class VelocityHelper

java.lang.Object

de.fuberlin.wiwiss.pubby.servlets.VelocityHelper

public class VelocityHelper
extends Object

A facade class that simplifies using a custom Velocity engine from a servlet. It encapsulates creation of the VelocityEngine instance, its storage in the servlet context, and the rendering of templates into the servlet response output stream.

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Richard Cyganiak (richard@cyganiak.de)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
VelocityHelper(javax.servlet.ServletContext servletContext, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.apache.velocity.context.Context	getVelocityContext()
void	renderXHTML(String templateName) Renders a template using the template variables put into the velocity context.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

VelocityHelper

public VelocityHelper(javax.servlet.ServletContext servletContext,
                      javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)

Method Detail

getVelocityContext

public org.apache.velocity.context.Context getVelocityContext()

Returns:

A receptacle for template variables

renderXHTML

public void renderXHTML(String templateName)

Renders a template using the template variables put into the velocity context.