Apache FreeMarker: Java-шаблонизатор

Java based template engine

Apache FreeMarker is a free Java based template engine, originally focusing on dynamic web page generation with MVC software architecture. It can now generate text based on templates and changing data. It has no dependency on servlets or HTTP or HTML. It is often used for generating source code, configuration files or e mails.

FreeMarker had a somewhat hectic history until about 2004, caused by paradigm shifts and other significant changes on multiple occasions. FreeMarker 1 (now known as FreeMarker Classic, a separate project) was originally written by Benjamin Geer and Mike Bayer. From 2002, the new project lead was Jonathan Revusky, who released FreeMarker 2, which started a sequence of several substantial changes. The main goal of the changes was to make the template language more strict, i. e., to detect as many of the typos and other typical mistakes as possible. Also, automatic object wrapping was introduced, along with gradual advancement of the type system of the template language. The language has gained many power user features, such as more powerful macro programming capabilities and namespaces. The language has reached a quite settled state with version 2.3, released in 2004 Q3. As of 2022, the product has remained backward compatible. No significant backward incompatible changes are expected in the FreeMarker 2 series in the future. In late 2015, FreeMarker was granted to the Apache Software Foundation, where it has entered the Apache Incubator, and in 2018 03 21 it has become a fully accepted Apache project.