I have an entire production webapp full of velocity webpages. Unfortunately, it's proprietary code, so I can't share it.
Actually, I'm converting it to
JSF. Velocity is OK for display-only stuff (but not as good as I'd thought it would be), However, web pages typically have lots of inputs as well, and Velocity is no help there. Frameworks such as
Struts and JSF work better.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.