Re[2]: Newbie - Keep getting ResourceNotFoundException

Well I have searched the archives, and found a lot, but nothing that
helped me :( I want total controll over my servlet, so I rather not
use the VelocityServlet. I don't understand why my Servlet has
problems finding the template, since I give it the correct path to it,
I even tried to give it the HTTP path like this
"/myproject/mytemplate.yaf" (and if I requested this path manually
with my browser, I would get the template file). Could you maybe
explain to me what can possible be wrong, do I need to initialize
something, or what is it?

/Søren

Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 8:54:54 PM, Jeff wrote:

JD> 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.
JD> 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.

JD> HTH,

JD> Jeff

JD> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Med venlig hilsen/Best regards,
>>  Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@xxxxxxxx