Date tool in velocity for Plugin

Question

I am writing servlet plugin in JIRA . I need to format date in velocity.

How can i achieve this?

I have tried $dateTool but didn't succeed.

Andrew · Answer

Updated link for Julian's answer:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/31681397

AnaG · Answer

Is it correct to use TemplateRenderer to render templates? Will it include standard velocity variables into the context?

Julian Riedinger _Decadis AG_ · Answer

Have you put the object of the class DateTool in the vm-context?

With this possibillity you can check it out:
https://developer.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4227172