On 10/24/05, Cyril ROY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a french new developer. > I'm in an IBM project and new to Spring and velocity technologies. > > I have to complete a web application that a person left unfinished when > leaving the project. > > Unfortunately, he left me some errors :( > > Velocity engine is here used to produce a document. > Here is the thing : VelocityEngine is declared in my Service > Implementation Class and initialised via xml spring files. > But the VelocityEngine declared in my class is not initialised (it remains > null (the class initialisation)). > > The spring files seem OK. > > In the console Debug here is what I see > > Initialising the VelocityEngine via spring : > INFO org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine - > ************************************************************** > INFO org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine - Starting Jakarta Velocity > v1.4 > INFO org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine - RuntimeInstance initializing. > [...] > ERROR org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine - ResourceManager : unable > to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm' in any resource loader. > Is this normal?
yes. ignore it. > [...] > > Then, when trying to use the VelocityEngine I've got in > VelocityEngineUtils.mergeTemplate method I've got the following > exception (since the VelocityEngine is null): > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineUtils.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngineUtils.java:56) > > Have you got any idea? not really. i've only just recently begun learning Spring and have not looked into their Velocity integration yet. but, it certainly sounds like the problem is in how Spring is being used or configured. if the VelocityEngine is initialized (as seen from the logs above), but is then null when trying to use the VelocityEngineUtils, then it is some problem with the setting up of VelocityEngineUtils, i'd guess. not really a problem with Velocity. if someone else on this list who knows more about Velocity-Spring integration doesn't help you, then you should ask someone over on the spring lists. they'll have a better idea of what's going on. > I can send you some code sample if it can help your understanding. > > I hope you will be able to help me. > > P.S : all apologies for my english. > > Thanks, > > Cyril ROY > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
