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Asked: 2026-05-31T15:48:32+00:00

I’m wondering can Velocity make what I want :) For example I have <html>

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I’m wondering can Velocity make what I want 🙂

For example I have

<html>
   <meta> 
      <title>My title</title>
   </meta>
   <body>
   <div id="content">
   <!-- here is my dynamic content -->
   </div>       
   <div id="right">static content</div> 
  </body></html>

Now. I have 4 actions in my Spring based application

create, update, login, home

Every action have it own template. For create is a big form, for update small form, for login, login form, for home lates news.

There are very much diffrent each from other. Now I want to dynamicly swap content in my
Can I create such template-container (i mean the header part and right div) with dynamic part ?

I don’t want to get the actions response to variable and pass it to template. I want to have a simple template for example create.jsp or create.vm or create.html and I want that my app automaticly will take the template of the action and render it in my static template-container.

I hope it is clear

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve used Tiles 2 with JSP in several projects and I like it. However, with Velocity I prefer macros for simple templating system.

    main.vm:

    #macro(main)
<html>
    <meta>
        <title>My title</title>
    </meta>
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            $bodyContent
        </div>
    </body>
</html>
#end

    hello.vm:

    #@main
Hello, World!
#end

    Spring configuration:

    <bean id="velocityConfigurer" 
    ...
    <property name="velocimacro.library" value="main.vm" />
</bean>

    Maybe this is not so pretty, but it has the advantage that every view is the one who decides which layout applies, more like JSF does.

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