> The classloaders of WLS seem not to play nice with velocity when
> deploying this way.
>
> If you haven't already tried, do the following, it makes it all work
> for us:
>
> 1) In the webwork.properties file (which should be in your
> WEB-INF/classes directory) put a line like this:
>
> webwork.velocity.configfile = my-velocity.properties
>
> 2) create a "my-velocity.properties" file under WEB-INF/classes and
> put into it the contents of the velocity.properties file that is in
> webwork's velocity-dep.jar
>
> 3) in your new "my-velocity.properties" file, find the section titled
> "T E M P L A T E L O A D E R S", and change this section to look like
> this:
>
> ===========================================
> resource.loader = class
>
> file.resource.loader.description = Velocity File Resource Loader
> file.resource.loader.class =
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
> file.resource.loader.path = .
> file.resource.loader.cache = false
> file.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval = 2
>
> class.resource.loader.class =
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader
> class.resource.loader.cache = true
> ===========================================
>
> … which straightens out the class resource loading problems (for us
> at least).
>
> hope this helps,
> james