access to DateTool in shib views?

[Tom Zeller]

> I did manage to get the springMessage macros to work, I don't know if 
> there's a relationship there.

Noting that those macros are declared in spring.vm, part of spring-web-mvc.jar IIRC.

>> Is it possible to make $date available?
> 
> I don't have a ready answer at the moment. Obviously "yes", but I can't 
> say what it involves.

Commenting that I have avoided Velocity toolbox stuff because I wasn't sure how "supported" it was. I don't know how to enable it properly either.