Hi,
I am using velocity templates to generate emails in a stand alone
application.
During the life cycle of the application, i generate 5 emails. But i
am facing a problem now:

If i run this stand alone application say more than 3 times
continuosly, i get the below error and mails are not being sent after
that.If i restart the server, start the application, then the mails
will be sent without any problems for next 3 runs. Is it a bug with
Velocity itself or bug in the way i implemented it?

I googled it and found many people face same problem. But couldn't get
any solution for it. So thought this is the right place to post it.

PANIC : error configuring SimpleLog4JLogSystem :
java.io.FileNotFoundException: velocity.log (Too many open files)

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger
(org.apache.velocity.runtime.log.SimpleLog4JLogSys tem).

log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

Can any one please help me to overcome this problem?

I am using the log4J for logging instead of AvalonLogSystem.

Here is the steps what i do for sending emails:
1. Initialize the velocity --- > Velocity.init(p); where 'p' is the
properties file.
this is done once per life cycle of the application.

2.Create the new instance of velocitycontext for each mail --->

VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();

put the data to context.

So in my case i have 3 different mails whcih need to be sent. So i
have created 3 instances of VelocityContext. Is it creating the
problem?

Please note that, if i run my application once in a day, it works
fine.
I feel it is some thing to do with the way Velocity does the file
handling....

Please help me to overcome this problem.

Thanks in advance,