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RoadMap
Created by
ASF Infrabot
on
Jul 09, 2019
Introduction
This page contains current thoughts of the developer community on the development and release plan for Velocity. Specific issues are listed in
JIRA
and should be tagged with the versions listed below.
Note that Velocity (as a mature open source project) successfully serves the needs of a wide variety of users across the Java community. In part, its strength comes from a simple syntax and a straightforward design that make it easy to use in most situations. In addition, the project strives to ensure backwards compatibility across all 1.x versions. Consequently, the Velocity developers tend to be conservative and new features tend to be incremental rather than revolutionary.
Having said all that, we welcome feedback and new ideas! Please send your thoughts to the velocity-dev mailing list or post enhancement requests on
JIRA
to take part in the discussion.
Release 1.6
Objective
Address well-defined enhancement requests and all outstanding bug reports. This update is intended to be a drop-in replacment for Velocity 1.5 and as such strict backwards compatibility is required. Issues accompanied by actual code will receive special consideration.
Specific issues are listed in
JIRA
Issues of particular consideration include
Substantial revision to user documentation with new
DocBook
format
VELOCITY-463
Allow macros to be defined in files loaded with #parse
VELOCITY-281
(WGH)
New directive #evaluate
VELOCITY-509
(WGH)
Move Texen and Anakia to become separately released subprojects
VELOCITY-522
(WGH)
Auto-magically support most List methods on array objects, so template authors can ignore the difference
VELOCITY-533
As much as possible, support Iterable in #foreach (
VELOCITY-379
) and varargs in method calls (
VELOCITY-534
).
(other suggestions for critical issues to include? leave initials if you are enthused enough to drive the issue)
Release Plan
no specific timetable as of yet
Release 2.0
(under discussion)
Objective
Refactoring of the design and template language to promote consistency and ease of use. Specific focus:
Cleaning up syntax and API inconsistencies
Adding new features and syntax that complement existing ones
The basic operation and focus will remain the same. This release will not be a complete code rewrite. Instead it continues the incremental improvements but loosens backwards-compatibility requirements. Most old Velocity templates would still work fine with Velocity 2.0 and others will require a small amount of change.
Possible Enhancements
Make parser pluggable, allowing for variations in technology and syntax
Support for tag library ("VSTL"?) to use in JSP
Improve whitespace processing
Integrate commons-logging
Template validator / syntax checker
Add new directives (e.g. #break for #foreach loops?)
support JSP Tag libraries
Support nested custom directives (similar to nested JSP tags)
Standard List methods that operate on List and array objects (allowing them to be used interchangeability)
Upgrade runtime requirements to JDK 1.4 and clean up ORO and other pre JDK 1.4 dependencies
add Groovy or Jython support
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