using Velocity to externalize configuration properties ?

[Tom Zeller]

> It would be easy to do, and allow for a lot of customization. I sort of
> forgot that Spring does the actual XML parsing here, which is something
> I'd love to change, but probably isn't possible.

Not sure how easy it will be to integrate Velocity with Spring
configuration parsing, but I can give it a try. And yeah let's not
build a custom parser for 3.x.