Tomcat Says

Solution

(Thanks to Keith Lea!)

It turns out Velocity's Avalon logging system was trying to write to my Tomcat folder.

So that it's on file somewhere for other people, I will describe the solution:

• I created a file "velocity.properties" and placed it in my WEB-INF/classes folder.
• Inside the file I wrote:

This stops Velocity from logging, and the example application now works.