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| FreeMarker is a "template engine"; a generic tool to generate text output (anything from HTML to |
| autogenerated source code) based on templates. It's a Java package, a class library for Java programmers. |
| It's not an application for end-users in itself, but something that programmers can embed into their |
| products. |
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| FreeMarker is designed to be practical for the generation of HTML Web pages, particularly by servlet-based |
| applications following the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern. The idea behind using the MVC pattern for |
| dynamic Web pages is that you separate the designers (HTML authors) from the programmers. Everybody works |
| on what they are good at. Designers can change the appearance of a page without programmers having to |
| change or recompile code, because the application logic (Java programs) and page design (FreeMarker |
| templates) are separated. Templates do not become polluted with complex program fragments. This separation |
| is useful even for projects where the programmer and the HTML page author is the same person, since it helps |
| to keep the application clear and easily maintainable. |
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| Although FreeMarker has some programming capabilities, it is not a full-blown programming language like PHP. |
| Instead, Java programs prepare the data to be displayed (like issue SQL queries), and FreeMarker just |
| generates textual pages that display the prepared data using templates. |
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| \u001B[36mhttp://freemarker.sourceforge.net/\u001B[0m |