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• Freemarker is a logical choice when implementing serialization of an object or object tree into an HtmlElement.
• Generating an HtmlElement from Freemarker is simpler and more portable that doing the same via java code using HTML5 DTOs.
• Binding the resulting HtmlElement produced by evaluating Freemarker template(s) to the appropriate HTML5 DTO allows validation of the result vis-a-vis the HTML5 spec. 
• Choice of how to present (View layer) an object tree should be entirely disconnected from implementation of the object class (Model layer)

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User interaction and design

/**
 * When displaying just one Group, render a subset of attributes in a table.
 */
@RestMethod(
    name="GET",
    path="/{path}",
    templates={
		"Group: Group.table.ftl"
	}
)
public Group viewGroup( RestRequest req,
                        @Path String path) {
}
 
/**
 * When displaying a list of Groups, render a different subset of attributes per row.
 */
@RestMethod(
    name="GET",
    path="/",
    templates={
		"Group: Group.div.ftl"
	}
)
public List<GroupHtml> listGroups() throws IOException {


}

Questions

Below is a list of questions to be addressed as a result of this requirements document:

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