using VelocityHtmlEmail outside web-app

[Anmol Khanna]

Hi, 

I am using turbine 2.2 b 1 in *standalone* mode and am having troubles using 
VelocityHTMLEmail Class.

To create a new Instance of VelocityHtmlEmail RunData is required. 

How do I obtain RunData?

I had a look at getRunData() method in RunDataFactory. 

I can't use this method, because, I am not developing  a web-app  and don't have a 
request and response .

Are there any code samples of using VelocityHtmlEmail outside a web app?



When I create a VelocityHtmlEmail with RunData as null     
// RunData data =null; VelocityHtmlEmail ve = new VelocityHtmlEmail(data);

I get a NullPointerException  as method getContext assumes RunData !=null

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.turbine.util.velocity.VelocityHtmlEmail.getContext(Velocit
yHtmlEmail.java:271)
        at org.apache.turbine.util.velocity.VelocityHtmlEmail.send(VelocityHtmlE
mail.java:179)
        at SendEmail.sendVelHTMLEmail(SendEmail.java:75)
        at SendEmail.<init>(SendEmail.java:24)
        at SendEmail.main(SendEmail.java:81)


Is it possible to use VelocityHtmlEmail outside a web app? (comments in the source 
code say that it is possible, but don't talk about  this problem)

Thanks
Anmol