How to Use Velocity to generate HTML based email

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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$petList.size() Pets on Sale!



This is an email generated by velocity


This month only, choose from :

#set( $count = 1 )

#foreach( $pet in $petList )





#set( $count = $count + 1 )
#end

$count)

$pet.name

$pet.price

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