| ## Velocity Engine |
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| The Apache Velocity Engine is a free open-source templating engine. |
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| Velocity permits you to use a simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code. It is written in 100% pure Java and can be easily embedded into your own applications. The engine is the core of the [Apache Velocity Project](/). |
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| ## Getting Started |
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| The Velocity engine subproject contains the documentation to get started using the Velocity templating language and embedding Velocity into your own applications. Please select [the last released version](1.7) to get started. Once you are more familiar with Velocity or if you need a feature not yet released, you can check out the [Development Site](devel). |
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| + [Engine 2.2](2.2) pages. |
| + [Engine Development Version](devel/) pages. |
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| ## Older Releases |
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| + [Engine 2.1 Release](2.1) |
| + [Engine 2.0 Release](2.0) |
| + [Engine 1.7 Release](1.7) |
| + [Engine 1.6.2 Release](1.6.2) |
| + [Engine 1.6.1 Release](1.6.1) |
| + [Engine 1.6 Release](1.6) |
| + [Engine 1.5 Release](1.5) |
| + [Engine 1.4 Release](1.4) |
