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Reputation: 10561

Why there is no Velocity after spring-boot-starter-parent 1.4.7?

I need to upgrade my spring-boot-starter-parent from 1.4.2 to latest:

<parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.5.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>

But this won't work any more:

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-velocity</artifactId>
        </dependency>

I found that after 1.4.7, the velocity package is no longer included in the parent. How to deal with this? Can I suspend 'velocity' dependency after upgrading the dependency?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1037

Answers (1)

kj007
kj007

Reputation: 6254

Spring Boot 2.0 depends on Spring Framework 5.0. Which dropped support for Velocity. Hence in Spring Boot 2 there is no more support for Velocity.

Dropped support: Portlet, Velocity, JasperReports, XMLBeans, JDO, Guava.

If you really need Velocity, Recommendation: Stay on Spring Framework 4.3.x for those if needed.

Please read What's new Spring Framework 5.x

Removed Packages, Classes and Methods

Package beans.factory.access (BeanFactoryLocator mechanism).
Package jdbc.support.nativejdbc (NativeJdbcExtractor mechanism).
Package mock.staticmock removed from spring-aspects module.
No support for AnnotationDrivenStaticEntityMockingControl anymore.
Packages web.view.tiles2 and orm.hibernate3/hibernate4 dropped.
Minimum requirement: Tiles 3 and Hibernate 5 now.
Dropped support: Portlet, Velocity, JasperReports, XMLBeans, JDO, Guava.
Recommendation: Stay on Spring Framework 4.3.x for those if needed.
Many deprecated classes and methods removed across the codebase.
A few compromises made for commonly used methods in the ecosystem.

Upvotes: 2

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