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Why Velocity support is deprecated in Spring 4.3?

And how are we going to use Velocity with Spring after Spring 5.0?

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Jun Guo Avatar asked Jun 30 '16 15:06

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It looks like Jürgen Höller wants to get rid of Velocity alltogether, because it "dates back to 2010". Support for it was deprecated in Spring 4.3, and will probably be removed in Spring 5.

https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-13795

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Olivier Croisier Avatar answered Oct 19 '22 17:10

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