Programmer's Guide

Section Contents

• Getting Started

• Create a configuration instance

  • Create a data-model

  • Get the template

  • Merging the template with the data-model

  • Putting all together

• The Data Model

• Basics

  • Scalars

  • Containers

  • Methods

  • Directives

  • Node variables

  • Object wrappers

• The Configuration

• Basics

  • Shared variables

  • Settings

  • Template loading

  • Error handling

  • Template configurations

  • Associating output formats with templates

  • Custom number and date/time formats

  • The "incompatible improvements" setting

• Miscellaneous

• Variables, scopes

  • Charset issues

  • Multithreading

  • Bean wrapper

  • Logging

  • Using FreeMarker with servlets

  • Configuring security policy for FreeMarker

  • Legacy XML wrapper implementation

  • Using FreeMarker with Ant

  • Jython wrapper