diff --git a/vdoclet/plugin.jelly b/vdoclet/plugin.jelly
index 55653c35..574e4a0d 100644
--- a/vdoclet/plugin.jelly
+++ b/vdoclet/plugin.jelly
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
           template="${template}"
           outputFile="${outputFile}"
           encoding="${encoding}"
+          jellyContext="${context}"
         />
       </define:tag>
     </define:taglib>
diff --git a/vdoclet/project.xml b/vdoclet/project.xml
index 285f9543..9d4cd804 100644
--- a/vdoclet/project.xml
+++ b/vdoclet/project.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@
       <id>oro</id>
       <version>2.0.6</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <id>commons-jelly</id>
+      <version>1.0-beta-4</version>
+      <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/</url>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-jelly</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-jelly-tags-velocity</artifactId>
+      <version>20030303.205659</version>
+      <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/</url>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <id>logkit</id>
       <version>1.0.1</version>
diff --git a/vdoclet/src/main/org/apache/maven/vdoclet/VDocletBean.java b/vdoclet/src/main/org/apache/maven/vdoclet/VDocletBean.java
index 3d525ae1..c7cab4e6 100644
--- a/vdoclet/src/main/org/apache/maven/vdoclet/VDocletBean.java
+++ b/vdoclet/src/main/org/apache/maven/vdoclet/VDocletBean.java
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 package org.apache.maven.vdoclet;
 
-import com.thoughtworks.qdox.model.JavaSource;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyContext;
+import org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.velocity.JellyContextAdapter;
+import org.apache.velocity.context.Context;
+
+import com.thoughtworks.qdox.model.JavaSource;
+
 import vdoclet.Generator;
 import vdoclet.docinfo.DocInfo;
 import vdoclet.docinfo.QDoxBuilder;
@@ -34,6 +40,9 @@ public class VDocletBean
     /** docinfo */
     DocInfo docInfo;
 
+    /** The jelly context */
+    JellyContext jellyContext;
+
     /**
      * Alias for srcPath
      */
@@ -50,6 +59,16 @@ public class VDocletBean
         this.destDir = destDir;
     }
 
+    /** 
+     * Set the Jelly context.
+     * 
+     * @param jellyContext the Jelly context
+     */
+    public void setJellyContext(JellyContext jellyContext)
+    {
+        this.jellyContext = jellyContext;
+    }
+
     /**
      * destDir attribute
      */
@@ -125,11 +144,26 @@ public class VDocletBean
         
         Generator generator = new Generator(destDir);
         generator.setAttribute("docInfo", docInfo);
+
+        if (jellyContext != null)
+        {
+            generator.setAttribute("jellyContext", getJellyContextAdapter());
+        }
+
         if (encoding != null)
         {
             generator.setAttribute("encoding", encoding);
         }
         generator.eval(template, new FileWriter(new File(destDir, outputFile)));
     }
+
+    private Context getJellyContextAdapter()
+    {
+        JellyContextAdapter adapter = new JellyContextAdapter(jellyContext);
+
+        adapter.setReadOnly(true);
+
+        return adapter;
+    }
 }
 
diff --git a/xdoc/project.xml b/xdoc/project.xml
index 64765a8f..1c25fecd 100644
--- a/xdoc/project.xml
+++ b/xdoc/project.xml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-jelly</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-jelly-tags-velocity</artifactId>
-      <version>20030211.144921</version>
+      <version>20030303.205659</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-jelly</groupId>