This section will have dicussions on the book for FreeMarker.

FreeMarker Cookbook

Table Of Contents

Introduction

• An introdution to templating and Web-MVC
• Why use FreeMarker over JSP
• Features

Getting Started with FreeMarker

Download, installation, command line example, servlet example.
The goal is to give the reader some concrete framework in his brain, where he can plug the details described in the following two chapters. And also he should be able to try what he reads about later.

The FreeMarker Template Language (this is for template authors (aka "designers"), and for devlopers too)

Here show everything about FTL, with lot of examples, except reference info like all directives or all built-ins.

The FreeMarker API (this is for developers only, of course)

• Basics
• Object wrapping (with examples of "expert" tasks, discussion of advanced BeansWrapper related topics)
• Macro libraries, transforms, methods

At this point the reader knows everything important about FreeMarker itself. So now the various "recipes" can come.

Using FreeMarker with Web Application Frameworks

• FreeMarker in JSP model-2 centric environment (contains JSP custom tag feature)
• Using FreeMarker with Spring
• Using FreeMarker with WebWork
• Using FreeMarker with Struts
• Using FreeMarker with SiteMesh

Howto for selected use-cases (how should we break this up to multiple chapters?)

• Using JSP tags without FreemarkerServlet
• XML processing
• FreeMarker as file preprocessor
• Using FreeMarker with Rhino (ECMAScript)
• Using FreeMarker with Jython
• Code generation with FreeMarker
• Internationalization

Extended Case study

Sum up all the features of FreeMarker into a fiticious case study. Have a extended sample with details of design and implementations.
Integrate with as many tools as possible.