Apache FreeMarker Reviews & Product Details

Really easy to use. This is great when we have so many web templates and it's giving the flexibility to adjust them accordingly. And of course, it's Open Source and well documented and therefore we don't need to hard search to get something done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemarker had almost everything I need. And also it's well documented. Therefore I had no issues with it while working on my requirements. So I don't have anything at this moment. But if I found something will inform them because it is a great and simple tool, and we need to improve that to sustain it in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemarker has the least learning curve of all the transformation technologies. When compared with Xquery, Jsonpath, xpath etc. Freemarker is might weight and faster processing than the others. Combined with great built in functions and macros support and support for all the data structures of Java, I can't think of any other technology that comes even close to freemarker in this domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though the documentation is pretty good, finding a function that does exactly what you need is a bit challenging. Also, the dateTime formatting libraries and their documentation could be improved.

There's no good IDE support. Very few plugins in eclipse and IntelliJ offer support for freemarker linting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache Freemarker is best for generating messages in any format e.g., XML, JSON, Swift, FIX, and ISO messages. And also best for Runtime UI components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used it in most places and didn't see any cons over there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache FreeMarker template has a very powerful engine for processing FTL files with backing Java classes. Using FreeMarker, you can design a framework that could be cross-platform and have one JSON response across different platforms, i.e., Android and iOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it's hard to get the error when the FTL engine processes the FTL and encounters some error. Error description messages can be more well-defined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easily build the dynamic templates and connect them with blackened with MVC framework. It provides loops and conditional statements which makes it more easy to build those. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need of variable declaration for every backend value which is kind of hectic. So it will be great if we can use backend values directly in the code without need of variable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had to generate multiple templates with the same set of backend data a long time ago. Great flexibility for web design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solutions available in web were not enough to solve some issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple and easy to read code, everything looks very natural and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some syntax is harder to remember but I am glad they have an outstanding resources available online which is really helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mechanism to embed Code inside templates, exhaustive logical code construct support, simple syntax, easy to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Debugging mechanism was weak on eclipse, not sure if there is any other way to debug apart from traces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open-source

Flexibility of usage

Good documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a considerable learning curve before usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Powerful template language

Multipurpose and lightweight

Internationalization/localization-aware

XML processing capabilities

Versatile data-model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Error description can be improved also there is no good IDE support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.