I was having trouble getting Velocity’s date tool to work with Spring MVC. I followed the instructions, most copied verbatim from what was most likely one ancient source. Those instructions said that to enable Velocity’s date formatting tool, DateTool, I needed to configure the VelocityViewResolver like this (WRONG):
<bean id="viewResolver">
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver"></bean>
<br /><property name="numberToolAttribute"><value>numbertool</value></property>
<br /><property name="dateToolAttribute"><value>datetool</value></property>
And […]