Velocity UI for Eclipse

This project leverages the Eclipse platform (v3.x) by adding support for the template/scripting engine Velocity.

It provides the following plugins:

org.apache.velocity: Velocity binaries (currently v1.7.0) packaged as an Eclipse plugin
org.vaulttec.velocity.ui: Velocity-aware text editor (associated to files with extensions '*.vsl' or '*.vm') with outline view

Editor Features

Syntax-highlight for Velocity Template Language (VTL)
Outline view with hierarchy of VTL directives and Velocimacro references
Content assist for VTL directives (Screenshot) and references (Screenshot) -> auto-activation after the character '#' or '$' or manually via keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Space
Automatic template validation while typing (the first syntax error is show in task list and the according line is marked in annotation column) -> Screenshot
Annotation hover with definition of references (Screenshot) and template syntax errors (Screenshot)
Go to definition of variable or Velocimacro reference under current cursor position (via navigate + context menu or keyboard shortcut F3)
Use Workbench's navigation history to return to previous location (keyboard shortcut 'Alt + Arrow Left').
Comment and uncomment blocks (via Ctrl+/ and Ctrl+\)
Preference pages for definition of Velocity counter name and user-defined Velocity directives (Screenshot)
Preference pages for color settings of the editor's syntax highlighting (Screenshot)
Preference pages for Velocimacro library (Screenshot)

Installation

Via Eclipse Update Manager

Online updates are available on http://veloedit.sourceforge.net/updates/. Define a site bookmark in Eclipse's Update Manager view (Screenshot), navigate to the update site via this bookmark (Screenshot) and install the Velocity UI feature.

This update site can also be downloaded from SourceForge and used locally.

Manually

Download the archives org.apache.velocity_x.x.x.zip and org.vaulttec.velocity.ui_x.x.x.zip from here and unzip them in your Eclipse plugin directory "<eclipse install path>/plugins/".