Nearly any application, you build, requires some form of output. Often the format of that output can change on a regular basis, creating a heavy maintenance burden, and a restrictive test cycle. By utilizing the power of the Velocity template engine you can integrate templated output into your application, decoupling the application logic from the output format. This book offers an in-depth look at Velocity. You’ll start right off with configuration and setup and work through to full application development using Velocity, as well extensions to the Velocity framework. This is not just a book about Web development – Velocity has many uses beyond being a simple replacement for JSP, and this book discusses and demonstrates many of these uses.