Velocity - Template language

Velocity is an open source template language created in 2003.

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Apache Velocity is a Java-based template engine that provides a template language to reference objects defined in Java code. It aims to ensure clean separation between the presentation tier and business tiers in a Web application (the model–view–controller design pattern). Velocity is an open source software project hosted by the Apache Software Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: template language
Early development of Velocity happened in Apache Software Foundation
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting Velocity
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Velocity
See also: (7 related languages) Java, HTML, SQL, PostScript, XML, JSP, Thymeleaf

Example from the Hello World Collection:

<HTML>
<!-- Hello World in Velocity -->
<BODY>
  #set( $foo = "Hello World" )
  $foo
</BODY>
</HTML>

Example from Wikipedia:

<html>
    <body>
        Hello Velocity World!
    </body>
</html>

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"