Comments on: Freemarker: Java Template Engine

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:33:10 +0000

Certainly… Please check out this quick page on the Freemarker website for more information, http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/dgui_quickstart_basics.html. But in your case, all you need to do is create a User bean, and your template would be “Hello ${name}”. The real power is being able to navigate thru the bean’s attributes (an object graph) using FTL (Freemarker Template Language), where you can do conditionals, loops, etc. Good Luck!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:16:19 +0000

I’m new to FreeMarker. You simple is very helpful. Do you know how to apply a bean to a string template? Say if I have bean class,

public class User {
private String name;
public User() {
}
public User(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
}

and I have a bean

User bean = new User(“Kevin”);

How can I write a template string and access the bean property “name”?

Thanks a lot.