"Primarily, I would say that good MVC [Model View Controller] practices are easier with Velocity," he said. "Also, Velocity is very easy to learn, and once learned, it can be used in any context, not merely in Web development."

With Velocity, an MVC model is applied in Web page design, enabling designers to focus solely on creating a site that looks good, while programmers can focus on writing top-notch code, Apache Jakarta said.

The goal of Velocity is "to provide a simple, easy-to-use, cross-platform, Java-friendly template engine useful in many types of software applications [and] to not evolve into a full-fledged scripting language," Bubna said.

Velocity is five years old, Bubna said. There are 184 projects dependent on Velocity within Apache alone, based on statistics that Bubna gathered.