java code for Velocity with External Properties

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

import org.apache.velocity.Template;
import org.apache.velocity.VelocityContext;
import org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity;

public class HelloWorldExternalProperties {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Velocity.init("./src/velocity.properties");

Template template = Velocity.getTemplate("./src/HelloWorld.vm");

VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();

Writer writer = new StringWriter();
template.merge(context, writer);

System.out.println(writer.toString());
}
}
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#
# This is a simple example of a velocity properties file.
#
# Any property that is not listed here will have it's default
# value used. The default values are located in :
# * src/java/org/apache/velocity/runtime/default/velocity.defaults
# * http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/developer-guide.html
#
# as an example, we are changing the name of the velocity log
#
runtime.log = velocity_example.log


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Hello World!