Why Velocity support is deprecated in Spring 4.3?

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Jun Guo picture Jun Guo · Jun 30, 2016 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

And how are we going to use Velocity with Spring after Spring 5.0?

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Olivier Croisier picture Olivier Croisier · Jun 30, 2016

It looks like Jürgen Höller wants to get rid of Velocity alltogether, because it "dates back to 2010". Support for it was deprecated in Spring 4.3, and will probably be removed in Spring 5.

https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-13795

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