Re: Newbie - Keep getting ResourceNotFoundException

I would advise first working with Velocity by extending VelocityServlet. 
Once you've used it a bit, you can then jump into more challenging tasks 
like the one you have mentioned.

-Matt

Søren Neigaard wrote:

> 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
> > >      
>
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