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<title>Velocity powered Websites</title>
<author email="jon@latchkey.com">Jon S. Stevens</author>
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<section name="Powered-By Velocity Logo">
<p>
This is not a requirement, but we would love it if you would adopt
our Powered-By Velocity logo for your own website in order to show
your support for our hard work.
</p>
<p>
<img src="images/powered-by-logo.gif" alt="Powered By Velocity" width="77" height="32" />
</p>
</section>
<section name="Velocity-powered Products and Projects">
<p>
Velocity is a utility tool which can be used in conjunction with
general applications which may or may not be web based.
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>Name</b></td>
<td><b>Description</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html">Anakia</a>
</td>
<td>
Essentially an XML transformation tool, Anakia uses JDOM and Velocity
to transform XML documents into the format of your choice. It provides
an alternative to using Ant's &lt;style&gt; task and XSL to process XML files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/texen.html">Texen</a>
</td>
<td>
Texen is a general purpose text generating utility. It is capable of
producing almost any sort of text output. Driven by Ant, Texen uses
a control template, an optional set of worker templates, and control
context to govern the generated output.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.gentleware.com/products/index.php3">GentleWare</a> Poseidon for UML
</td>
<td>
GentleWare's Poseidon product uses Velocity as a template tool in
order to generate Java code from UML diagrams that you design using
their tool.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.xadra.com/products/vas/index.html">Xadra</a> VelocityAdaptorServer
</td>
<td>
The VelocityAdaptorServer is a very simple yet extremely flexible
system for the creation of HTML-based Java Management
Extensions[tm] (JMX) compatible management consoles.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.vamphq.com/">Venus Application Publisher (Vamp)</a>
</td>
<td>
Vamp is a user-friendly tool that helps you package, sign and publish Web
Start/Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) software. Vamp uses Velocity
heavily to create parts of the gooey (GUI) in XUL or HTML or to create
documents such as JNLP startup files, web app config files or
HTML info pages.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://jtop.sourceforge.net/">J/Top</a>
</td>
<td>
J/Top is an open source application for monitoring multiple servers running
'top'. It has an email notifier which uses Velocity for formatting the
notification emails.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://eyebrowse.tigris.org/">Eyebrowse</a>
</td>
<td>
Eyebrowse is a Java Servlet browser for
Unix mbox format mail archives.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.vamphq.com/hazel.html">
Hazel</a>
</td>
<td>
Hazel is a Web Start/JNLP app catalog creator (jnlp2html).
Hazel allows you to create your own Web Start/JNLP app catalogs.
Hazel extracts all JNLP links from HTML documents and creates an
informative, neat looking HTML document listing all WebStart/JNLP apps.
Hazel uses Velocity as its template engine.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://xjr.sourceforge.net/">XJR : XML to Java via Reflection API</a>
</td>
<td>
Project toolkit for XML &lt;-&gt; Java compilation and mapping.
Among other things, compiles DTDs to Java class hierarchies.
Will create XML documents from those hierarchies and others...
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://velocidoc.sourceforge.net/intro.html">Velocidoc</a>
</td>
<td>
Velocidoc is a Velocimacro documentation tool modeled after
Javadoc that allows you to generate HTML documentation for your
Velocimacro libraries.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://scarab.tigris.org/">Scarab</a>
</td>
<td>
Scarab is an Issue/Artiface tracking system that has been developed
on top of Velocity and Turbine and is available under an open source
license.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net">Luxor</a>
</td>
<td>
Luxor is an open-source XML User Interface Language (XUL) toolkit for
building rich cross-platform, zero-admin desktop apps in Java. Luxor
supports hand-picked Mozilla XUL goodies and also includes a ultra
light-weight, multi-threaded web server, a portal engine, and Velocity
as its template engine.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.beardediris.com/webkiosk.html">WebAmortize</a>
</td>
<td>
WebAmortization is a simple Java servlet that implements an
online calculator for computing mortgage payments using the Velocity
template engine.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/ActionPack/">Action Pack</a>
</td>
<td>
ActionPack is a distribution of independent,
but cooperating, opensource modules for web applications development.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jeewiz.co.uk/index.html">
JeeWiz : Enterprise System Builder</a>
</td>
<td>
JeeWiz! uses templates to generate J2EE infrastructure code,
deployment descriptors and build jobs. The result is good news
for everyone on a J2EE project.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
<section name="Velocity powered Websites">
<p>
This is a list of public web sites that are created using Velocity.
This, of course, is by no means a complete listing of all of the
Velocity powered websites.
</p>
<p>
Currently, in the Jakarta project, the main Jakarta website, Velocity,
Ant, ECS, James, Jetspeed, Log4J, JMeter, Regexp, Tomcat, Turbine,
Commons, and Alexandria projects are all rendered as static HTML using
Velocity through the use of the Anakia XML transformation tool.
</p>
<p>
If you want your Velocity powered site listed here, please post a message on
the Velocity user
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html">mailing list</a>.
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>URL</b></td>
<td><b>Description</b></td>
<td><b>Created By</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://tambora.zenplex.org">tambora.zenplex.org</a>
</td>
<td>
Home of an OSS project.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.zenplex.org">Zenplex</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.flashcan.com">www.flashcan.com</a>
</td>
<td>
An interactive card making game using Velocity, Turbine and
Macromedia's Flash5.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.zincroe.com">ZincRoe</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.tigris.org">www.tigris.org</a>
</td>
<td>
Open source development tool suite.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.collab.net">CollabNet</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.devicetop.com">www.devicetop.com</a>
</td>
<td>
Devicetop.com is an industry-sponsored online community for
developers of Java-based applications for smart Internet devices.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.espial.com">Espial</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.adeptra.com">www.adeptra.com</a>
</td>
<td>
Adeptra is a venture-backed private company that provides
2-way alterting solutions for personal electronic devices.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.adeptra.com">Adeptra Inc.</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.discuss.gr">www.discuss.gr</a>
</td>
<td>
Online discussion forum site built using Turbine and Velocity.
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.webhelp.com/">www.webhelp.com</a>
</td>
<td>
Webhelp is a company that provides distributed call center integration
software and services for web and wireless technologies. WebHelp
incorporated Velocity with their ETranscript component, so that events
generated in a conference are rendered as MIME email and XML using Velocity
templates.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.webhelp.com">WebHelp</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.goodwoodinteriors.com">www.goodwoodinteriors.com</a>
</td>
<td>
Wood furniture factory site. The static content of this site is
generated using Velocity templates, providing the benefit of simple
deployment without the overhead of an online servlet container and
database with the advantage of Velocity's ease of use for generating
data driven content.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jawasoft.com">P.T.Jawasoft</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.freebok.net/">www.freebok.net</a>
</td>
<td>
Freebok.net is a free guestbook service that uses Velocity
templates for the site. More importantly the guestbook users
have the option to create their own Velocity templates to
render the layout of their guestbook.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.freebok.net/">Freebok.net</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.studioz.tv/">www.studioz.tv</a>
</td>
<td>
StudioZ is an events space in San Francisco where artists of all
types can promote their own events. We use Anakia with a custom
style.vsl to generate the entire static website XML->HTML in a
matter of seconds.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.whichever.com/">www.whichever.com</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/">www.cbc.ca/olympics/</a>
</td>
<td>
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 2002 Winter Olympic
website was developed using Velocity.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.salutebenessere.tv/">www.salutebenessere.tv</a>
</td>
<td>
SaluteBenessere Channel is a free Italian satellite TV channel dedicated to
well-being, sports and medicine. It is possible to watch the channel live on
Internet through a Real streaming server.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.aliasmedia.it/">Alias Media</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.impress.com/">www.IMPRESS.com</a>
</td>
<td>
Anakia-generated corporate site for Impress Software AG, producer of
integration products and services.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.impress.com/">Impress Software AG</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.davinci-learn.com/">www.davinci-learn.com</a>
</td>
<td>
DaVinci provides innovative web-based solutions for testing, course
material delivery, and learning content management.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.base2.cc/">Base2 Corporation</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.bkfev.de/">www.bkfev.de</a>
</td>
<td>
Site of a German Birman Cats owners association.
Static site generated with Velocity.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.bkfev.de/">Birmakatzenfreunden</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
<section name="Frameworks that support Velocity">
<p>
This is a list of web frameworks that include support for
Velocity 'out of the box'. While many web frameworks are
being used with Velocity, such as the
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/">Jakarta Struts</a>
project, the following include support for Velocity within the
package.
</p>
<p>
If you want your Velocity-powered framework listed here, please post a message on
the Velocity user
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html">mailing list</a>.
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>Name</b></td>
<td><b>Description</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/">Jakarta Turbine</a>
</td>
<td>
One of the early servlet-based web frameworks, and currently in version 2.1,
Turbine is a framework that allows experienced
Java developers to quickly build secure web applications. While Turbines
primary templating technology is Velocity, it also supports JSP, WebMacro,
FreeMarker, ECS and others.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.melati.org">Melati</a>
</td>
<td>
Melati is a tool for building Java-programmed websites backed by a database.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://jpublish.sourceforge.net/">JPublish</a>
</td>
<td>
JPublish is a web publishing framework which merges the Velocity template engine
with a content repository and application control framework.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://mav.sourceforge.net">Maverick</a>
</td>
<td>
Maverick is a Model-View-Controller framework for publishing web applications.
It is a simple, minimalist framework which offers the ability to render views
with JSP, Velocity, or XSLT directly.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/webwork/">WebWork</a>
</td>
<td>
WebWork is a web application framework for J2EE. It is based on a
concept called "Pull HMVC" (Pull Hierarchical Model View Controller).
The basic idea is to separate the site programmers' and site designers'
tasks. WebWork now supports Velocity with their 1.0 release (currently
in Release Candidate 1).
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.niggle.org/">Niggle</a>
</td>
<td>
Niggle is a Java class library intended
for use in development of robust, maintainable web applications.
The Niggle framework is designed to alleviate the repetitive,
tedious details typical of those kinds of applications
</td>
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<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/ActionServlet">ActionServlet</a>
</td>
<td>
ActionServlet provides an easy mapping of user actions (HTTP requests)
to methods of Java components together with automatic conversion of
HTTP parameters to the values of Java types.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
<section name="Miscellaneous and In-Progress">
<p>
This is a list of products and projects that don't quite fit into the
categeories above or aren't yet complete, but warrant mention.
</p>
<p>
If you want your Velocity-powered project listed here, please post a message on
the Velocity user
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html">mailing list</a>.
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>Name</b></td>
<td><b>Description</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="ftp://ftp.binarix.com/pub/pump/pump.tar.gz">Pump Servlet</a>
</td>
<td>
<a href="mailto:bojan@binarix.com">Bojan Smojver's</a> PumpServlet is an
alternative to the core VelocityServlet to use as a baseclass for
developing Velocity-powered servlets. See the documentation included
in the download for more information. (That should motivate Bojan...)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://edencrm.sf.net">EdenCRM</a>
</td>
<td>
EdenCRM is an open source java application for Customer Relationship
Management which is designed specifically for small businesses.
It runs on the desktop and does not require any server software
(unless you want to have multiple users use a shared database for
tickets and history entries).
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
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