Creating Objects

This technique is used for velocity programming, and is not needed for a typical HTML-only Website.

Page Value

The clean way to create a Java objects is to use this action:

<page-action name="PageValue.loadPageVariable" bean="today" class="java.util.Date" />

The date is can be found as variable named $today

Note: The page-action should be put in the exact page xconf that needs it. For example index.xconf

To create a java object on the fly in an .html or .xml page, use the following

#set ($variable = $classtool.newInstance( "class path", "constructor argument" ) )

Thus, to create a new dateformat object, we pass in the format to the constructor.

#set ( $dateformat = $classtool.newInstance( "java.text.SimpleDateFormat", "EEE MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm a" ) )

To enable the $classtool you need to add this path action to your _site.xconf

<path-action name="PageValue.getLoader" />