Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Velocity Engine 2.0

Am 2017-08-09 um 12:52 schrieb Claude Brisson:
> The Apache Velocity community is pleased to announce the release of 
> Apache Velocity Engine 2.0. The release is available for download at:
> 
>    https://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi#engine
> 
> Apache Velocity is well-known in the Java field as a lightweight, 
> easy-to-use templating library for creating dynamic web sites and 
> performing other text-generation tasks. It relies on the Velocity 
> Template Language (VTL) which is aimed at ease-of-use and simplicity.
> 
> This major release introduces several consistent changes and new 
> features, including:
> 
> - Switch to the SLF4J logging facade.
> - Configurable whitespace gobbling, that lets template writers indent 
> their templates without polluting the output.
> - VTL Method arguments and array subscripts can now be arithmetic 
> expressions.
> - Configurable method arguments conversion handler, which by default 
> handles automatic conversions between booleans, numbers, strings and enums.
> - Significant reduction of the memory consumption.
> - JSR-223 Scripting Engine implementation.
> - Made Velocity OSGi-ready.

Claude,

thank you for the hard work and great collaboration on this.

Michael