What happened with org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean?

Question

I am upgrading the Spring version of an older application. When starting, I get

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean

Regarding findjar this class was part of spring-context in earlier version, but not in the latest version. Can anybody give me a hint, what happened with this class?

Can I use something else?

Update: I found a quick&dirty sulution, I copied VelocityEngineFactoryBean, VelocityEngineFactory and SpringResourceLoader from the earlier Spring version. As I am moving the whole application to Spring Boot in the foreseeable future, this is as workaround acceptable for me.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14314143/velocityengineutils-has-been-removed-in-spring-3-2-so-what-else-to-use — aran, Jan 22 '19 at 09:22

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '19 at 09:24

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Spring has marked Velocity package as deprecated in Spring 4.3 and removed it completely in Spring 5.x.

Alternate, here

answered Jan 22 '19 at 09:24

Mohamed Anees A

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Only half of what I need, but that's of course not your fault, Mohamed. Thanks! – MirandaVeracruzDeLaHoyaCardina Jan 22 '19 at 12:38
Also, packages are deprecated for a reason. So, I strongly suggest you can also deprecate them in your codebase and go for alternates. Velocity isnt going to cut it! – Mohamed Anees A Jan 22 '19 at 12:40

What happened with org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean?

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