Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"I used to generate web pages and email"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

We used this with Spring MVC as well before Thymeleaf arrives. A really good template engine does well with loops, lists, conditional statements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

FreeMarker is really good, but I would go with Thymeleaf if using with Spring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Excellent for XML generation"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

Easy to use Java API

Great Performance.

Templates saves a lot of time by bypassing complete XML generation code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

Documentation can be improved. Developers need more samples so that they can easily start using Freemarker.

Need more examples on JSON structures with nested arrays and one to many relationships. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Online Media
IO
Verified User in Online Media
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Lightweight but powerful"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

Highly configurable and easy to use, great locale awareness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

Looping over objects can be verbose and long winded Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services
UI
Verified User in Information Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Server side template engine"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

We were using free market template along with jquerh Ajax. And we found it easy to use. Data binding is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

Documentation part has a scope to be improved. Other than that I don't see any cons as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"My review"
2.5/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

Using Freemarker to create ticket templates ant data collection files. Ease access to the Java methods, variables and operate them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

A little bit confused language syntax, need more time to understand other peoples written code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Used in struts2"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

Great Performance and the way it handles some things (like whitespace), comparing to other template engines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

The documentation was not so good at that time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources
UH
Verified User in Human Resources
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Perfect way to develope content templates"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

Easy to integrate to our webcms liferay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

New classes and functions would be really nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
II
Verified User in Internet
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Good for building simple templates , there is better template builder from Spring"
3/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

Good for building simple templates,simple to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

there is better template builder from Spring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Apache Freemarker template review"
3/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

The way it provides a way to parse JSON objects in HTML code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

I wish it had more functionalities and parsing backwards with .. doesn't look good with nested objects. Wish it had a better way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christina A.
CA
Christina A.
Secretary
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A novice IT user..LOL"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Apache FreeMarker?

That it was not overly to hard for someone with limited IT experience to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache FreeMarker?

some areas were confusing.. had to go back a couple times and restart but we have just started using this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.