From 12bff6b3a02cb720594d726f3a771792842d3726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Hoeller Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:44:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Velocity deprecation note in reference documentation Issue: SPR-14460 --- src/asciidoc/web-view.adoc | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/asciidoc/web-view.adoc b/src/asciidoc/web-view.adoc index c892d26633..3735a8d362 100644 --- a/src/asciidoc/web-view.adoc +++ b/src/asciidoc/web-view.adoc @@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ applications. The languages are quite similar and serve similar needs and so are considered together in this section. For semantic and syntactic differences between the two languages, see the http://www.freemarker.org[FreeMarker] web site. +[NOTE] +==== +As of Spring Framework 4.3, Velocity support has been deprecated due to six years +without active maintenance of the Apache Velocity project. We recommend Spring's +FreeMarker support instead, or Thymeleaf which comes with Spring support itself. +==== + [[view-velocity-dependencies]]