Velocity

Velocity is an open source template language created in 2003.

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Apache Velocity is a Java-based template engine that provides a template language to reference objects defined in Java code. It aims to ensure clean separation between the presentation tier and business tiers in a Web application (the model–view–controller design pattern). Velocity is an open source software project hosted by the Apache Software Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia...

Velocity website
Velocity Wikipedia page
Velocity first developed in Apache
file extensions for Velocity include vm and fhtml
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting Velocity
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Velocity
See also: (7 related languages)Java, HTML, SQL, PostScript, XML, JSP, Thymeleaf

Example from the Hello World Collection:

<HTML>
<!-- Hello World in Velocity -->
<BODY>
  #set( $foo = "Hello World" )
  $foo
</BODY>
</HTML>

Example from Wikipedia:

<html>
    <body>
        Hello Velocity World!
    </body>
</html>

Velocity - Template language

Language features