would I have a
way to invoke velocity using the scope being run but without the rendering?
I guess that would be the exact use case here and it is likely to be so for other people;
for example to generate xml documents, json documents...
It is possible, but not with what's available out of the box. You would
have to write a new action that is only responsible for invoking
Velocity, connecting its output directly to the socket.
Really?
No, if I seize the response and outputstream from a velocity script in the page, as
mentioned earlier, I have all the necessary sockets and connection.
Now I'd like something such as "includeThisPagesVelocityCode" (which could
be loaded as string even) which would output right out into the stream.
paul