THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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For more information on FreeMarker itself, please visit the FreeMarker website.
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Struts2 itself utilizes FreeMarker templates for its own tags because the engine can load templates from the classpath (unlike JSPs), has strong error reporting, built-in internationalization and powerful macro libraries. |
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The framework also supports Velocity templates. For a comparison of Velocity vs FreeMarker see hereFreeMarker is very similar to Velocity, as both are template languages that can be used outside of a Servlet container. The framework utilizes FreeMarker because FreeMarker has better error reporting. However, both are good alternatives to JSP. |
Getting Started
Getting started with FreeMarker is as simple as ensuring all the dependencies are included in your project's classpath. Typically, the only dependency is freemarker.jar. Other than that, struts-default.xml already configures the FreeMarker Result needed to process your application's templates.
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