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Apache Velocity

by The Apache Software Foundation

12

Reviews

3.9

Star rating

#64

Rank in Document Generation

Pros and cons

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    Cons

      Traffic & LLM citations

      Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for Apache Velocity.

      Page views and citations · Apache Velocity

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      Losing to

      Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from Apache Velocity.

      1

      GWT - Google Web Toolkit

      1 switched

      Key stats

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      45

      Enterprise

      1

      Adoption by company size

      SegmentShare of reviews
      Small Business33.3%
      Mid-Market8.3%
      Enterprise58.3%

      Quarterly history

      QuarterReviewsStar rating

      Satisfaction ratings

      Ease of Use9.5
      Ease of Setup0.0
      Quality of Support8.3
      Meets Requirements9.3

      What reviewers say

      The go-to templating solution for Java based web-projects

      3.5

      “Velocity is widely adopted due to which there are nice integration options and hooks for a framework like Spring (which in itself is widely used). Not only it handles the generation of web pages (.jsp) for Java EE stack but can also deal with generation of XML and SQL files.”

      Software Engineer

      Alternative Open Source Web Template Engine from Apache

      4.5

      “Apache Velocity is an intuitive open sourced template engine for web application development. We have been using it for several of our enterprise web application development enforcing the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern to separate between HTML web app template code (e”

      Engineering Manager/Project Manager

      Apache Velocity is now unsupported by Spring

      0.0

      “Velocity templates served its purpose back a few years ago, but this is no longer the case as support for it has diminished.”

      software engineer