Velocity Templating question

Hello,

Im trying to get to know the velocity templating engine.  Ive installed velocity, and i have working examples.  However, im trying to configure my VelocityServlet (child of..) to use templates from my template directory, but its not doing this.. i have the relative path to my properties file in my web.xml , and my properties file in turn has the entry :

file.resource.loader.path = /template

The templates, (weirdly) are being found.. but not where i expect them to be - they are in a completely seperate web application.  Its almost as though there is a general properties file over-riding the new one which i secify in loadConfiguration ();

The path to the props file is being read from the web.xml ok, and the path to the template directory is also reported in loadConfiguration as being correct..

any help appreciated..


package com.mehdi.cms;


import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.velocity.Template;
import org.apache.velocity.context.Context;
import org.apache.velocity.servlet.VelocityServlet;
import org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity;
import org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException;
import org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;


public class Test extends VelocityServlet
{

    protected Properties loadConfiguration(ServletConfig config )
        throws IOException, FileNotFoundException
    {

        String propsFile = config.getInitParameter(INIT_PROPS_KEY);
        if ( propsFile != null )
        {
            String realPath = getServletContext().getRealPath(propsFile);

            if ( realPath != null )
            {
                propsFile = realPath;
            }
        }

       Properties p = new Properties();
       p.load( new FileInputStream(propsFile) );
       String path = p.getProperty("file.resource.loader.path");

       if (path != null)
       {
           path = getServletContext().getRealPath( path );
           p.setProperty( "file.resource.loader.path", path );
       }

       System.out.println(">>" + p.getProperty("file.resource.loader.path"));//THIS IS CORRECT !

       path = p.getProperty("runtime.log");

       if (path != null)
       {
           path = getServletContext().getRealPath( path );
           p.setProperty("runtime.log", path );
       }

       return p;
    }

    public Template handleRequest( HttpServletRequest request,
     HttpServletResponse response, Context ctx )
    {
        String p1 = "doo";
        String p2 = "daa";

        Vector personList = new Vector();
        personList.addElement( p1 );
        personList.addElement( p2 );

        ctx.put("theList", personList );

        Template outty = null;

        try
        {
            outty =  getTemplate("mehdi.vm");
        }
        catch( ParseErrorException pee )
        {
            System.out.println("SampleServlet : parse error for template " + pee);
        }
        catch( ResourceNotFoundException rnfe )
        {
            System.out.println("SampleServlet : template not found " + rnfe);
        }
        catch( Exception e )
        {
            System.out.println("Error " + e);
        }
        return outty;
    }
}