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package org.springframework.ui.velocity;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
import org.apache.velocity.exception.VelocityException;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.FactoryBean;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
import org.springframework.context.ResourceLoaderAware;

/**
 * Factory bean that configures a VelocityEngine and provides it as bean
 * reference. This bean is intended for any kind of usage of Velocity in
 * application code, e.g. for generating email content. For web views,
 * VelocityConfigurer is used to set up a VelocityEngine for views.
 *
 * <p>The simplest way to use this class is to specify a "resourceLoaderPath";
 * you do not need any further configuration then. For example, in a web
 * application context:
 *
 * <pre>
 * &lt;bean id="velocityEngine" class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean"&gt;
 *   &lt;property name="resourceLoaderPath"&gt;&lt;value&gt;file:/WEB-INF/velocity/&lt;/value&gt;lt;/property&gt;
 * &lt;/bean&gt;</pre>
 *
 * See the base class VelocityEngineFactory for configuration details.
 *
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @see #setConfigLocation
 * @see #setVelocityProperties
 * @see #setResourceLoaderPath
 * @see org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityConfigurer
 */
public class VelocityEngineFactoryBean extends VelocityEngineFactory
		implements FactoryBean, InitializingBean, ResourceLoaderAware {

	private VelocityEngine velocityEngine;

	public void afterPropertiesSet() throws IOException, VelocityException {
		this.velocityEngine = createVelocityEngine();
	}

	public Object getObject() {
		return this.velocityEngine;
	}

	public Class getObjectType() {
		return VelocityEngine.class;
	}

	public boolean isSingleton() {
		return true;
	}

}
