Re: Newbie - Keep getting ResourceNotFoundException

You servlet is having a problem finding the template. If you search the 
archives you find a bunch of articles that explain how to fix this.
Instead I think it is easier to get started with Velocity in Servlets by using 
VelocityServlet and extending it. This does most of the initalization stuff.

HTH,

Jeff

Søren Neigaard wrote:

> I'm trying to make a simple HelloWorld example, and I'm doing this
> from inside the doGet method in a servlet:
>
> ------------------
> Velocity.init();
> VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
> context.put("name", new String("Velocity Test"));
> Template template = null;
> try {
>   template = Velocity.getTemplate("mytemplate.vm");
>   template.merge(context,response.getWriter());
> }
> catch(Exception e){
>   e.printStackTrace();
> }
> ------------------
>
> Where does it look for the template? Can it be on the file system, or
> must it be accessible via HTTP? I have now tried to pint it directly
> to the path where the file is, and i get this error:
>
> ------------------
> org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to
> find resource
> '/C:/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.10-LE-jdk14/webapps/yaf/mytemplate.vm'
> ------------------
>
> And the file is there!? Please advice, what is my (simple) problem?
>
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