[Building Sakai] Very basic velocity question: parsing data from java to template in Sakai

[David Wafula Wanyonyi]

Hi all,
Never used velocity before, so my first attempt is not going any where; please point me where am getting it wrong:

in   https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/portal/tags/portal-base-2.9.2/portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/SkinnableCharonPortal.java,


there is  includeLogin(),  with lines:
....
  rcontext.put("loginLogInOutUrl", logInOutUrl);
  rcontext.put("loginMessage", message);
.......

so am adding something simple:

 String pwdMessage = "Warning: Your password is expiring in 6 days";
  rcontext.put("passwordExpireMessage", pwdMessage);


I go to includeTabs.vm:

<span class="pawword-expire-warning">
${passwordExpireMessage}
</span>

it prints '${passwordExpireMessage}' instead of actual message


if i try and replace this with say ${loginMessage}, just for testing, the correct message is printed.



The trick ?
Thanks.

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