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Use Velocity to generate HTML based email
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import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
import org.apache.velocity.Template;
import org.apache.velocity.VelocityContext;
import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
public class EmailDemo
{
public static void main( String[] args )
throws Exception
{
/*
* first, get and initialize an engine
*/
VelocityEngine ve = new VelocityEngine();
ve.init();
/*
* organize our data
*/
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
Map map = new HashMap();
map.put("name", "Cow");
map.put("price", "$100.00");
list.add( map );
map = new HashMap();
map.put("name", "Eagle");
map.put("price", "$59.99");
list.add( map );
map = new HashMap();
map.put("name", "Shark");
map.put("price", "$3.99");
list.add( map );
/*
* add that list to a VelocityContext
*/
VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
context.put("petList", list);
/*
* get the Template
*/
Template t = ve.getTemplate( "./src/email_html.vm" );
/*
* now render the template into a Writer, here
* a StringWriter
*/
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
t.merge( context, writer );
/*
* use the output in the body of your emails
*/
System.out.println( writer.toString() );
}
}
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Pet Store Sale!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<B>$petList.size() Pets on Sale!</B>
<BR/>
This is an email generated by velocity
<BR/>
This month only, choose from :
#set( $count = 1 )
<TABLE>
#foreach( $pet in $petList )
<TR>
<TD>$count)</TD>
<TD>$pet.name</TD>
<TD>$pet.price</TD>
</TR>
#set( $count = $count + 1 )
#end
</TABLE>
<I>Call Today!</I>
Bests <br>
www.rntsoft.com
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>
velocity-HTML-Based-Email.zip( 2,191 k)
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