HELP with Velocity Tools needed

Hi,

I have used Velocity in a procejt about a year ago. Now I am creating a new
release of my software and try to port things to the latest versions of the
Apache software.

I have checked out Velocity tools from cvs and successfully built it with
Ant 1.5.1.

When I run my application it seems, that $link is not recognised! In a
Velocity macro I have the following code:

<form action=$link.setURI("$appRoot/authenticate.do") METHOD=POST >

I run it with Tomcat 4.1 and get the following 404 error:

type Status report

message /Echnaton/$link.setURI("$appRoot/authenticate.do")

description The requested resource
(/Echnaton/$link.setURI("$appRoot/authenticate.do")) is not available.


I have configured Velocity as follows:

In the web.xml of my application :

- <servlet>
  <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
  <display-name>Velocity</display-name>
  <description>The velocity template comiler.</description>

<servlet-class>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet</s
ervlet-class>
- <init-param>
  <param-name>toolbox</param-name>
  <param-value>/WEB-INF/toolbox.xml</param-value>
  </init-param>
- <init-param>
  <param-name>properties</param-name>
  <param-value>/WEB-INF/config/velocity.properties</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <load-on-startup>4</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

And this is my toolbox.xml:

  <?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <toolbox>
- <tool>
  <key>toolLoader</key>
  <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.ToolLoader</class>
  </tool>
- <tool>
  <key>link</key>
  <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.tools.LinkTool</class>
  </tool>
- <tool>
  <key>msg</key>
  <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.MessageTool</class>
  </tool>
- <tool>
  <key>date</key>
  <scope>application</scope>
  <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.DateTool</class>
  </tool>
- <tool>
  <key>errors</key>
  <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.ErrorsTool</class>
  </tool>
- <tool>
  <key>form</key>
  <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.FormTool</class>
  </tool>
  </toolbox>


Can anybody help me with my configuration problem?

Many thanks!

Thomas