Apache Velocity Part 4 – Comments in Template

January 29, 2017January 29, 2017 by omt

There are three types of comments you can write in Velocity Template.

1. Single Line comments. (##)
2. Multi-Line comments. (#* … *#)
3. Java Doc-Style comments (#** …. *#)

Find below template for all three comments.

comments.vm

All about Velocity comments.

## This is single line comments. 

#*

Multiple lines comments.
This type of comments are not useful for documentation. 

*#

#**

Java doc style comments, 
It is useful for documentation. 

@author Dhiral Pandya
@site Omtlab.com
@version 7.7

*#

All about Velocity comments.

## This is single line comments.

Multiple lines comments.

This type of comments are not useful for documentation.

#**

Java doc style comments,

It is useful for documentation.

@author Dhiral Pandya

@site Omtlab.com

@version 7.7

Code Example :

package com.omt.velocity.example;

import java.io.StringWriter;

import org.apache.velocity.Template;
import org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity;

public class CommentsVelocity {

	public CommentsVelocity() {
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		Velocity.init();

		Template t = Velocity.getTemplate("comments.vm");

		StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
		t.merge(null, writer);

		System.out.println(writer.toString());

	}

}

package com.omt.velocity.example;

import java.io.StringWriter;

import org.apache.velocity.Template;

import org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity;

public class CommentsVelocity {

public CommentsVelocity() {

// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

Velocity.init();

Template t = Velocity.getTemplate("comments.vm");

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();

t.merge(null, writer);

System.out.println(writer.toString());

}

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Apache Velocity Part 4 – Comments in Template

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