Comments on: FreeMarker Sketchbook 0.1

By: Harald Walker

Harald Walker — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:40:14 +0000

Jeffery, there is a new website, which offers a similar functionality: http://www.freemarkertool.com

By: jeffery caldwell

jeffery caldwell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:05:07 +0000

Wonderful. Please share the source code of this. I think what you have is wonderful teaching tool and I would love to read the code you have for the real time updates.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:45:44 +0000

Harald,

It looks good but let me make a suggestion that will turn this from a utility for a course into a decent IDE.

Make some provision for editing the data models. Even better let me save a “data set” and reload them at will. This way I can develop my templates against a collection of data models without having to build a whole Java framework for it.

This is useful precisely in those situations where freemarker is useful. You have a dedicated Java developer working with a dedicated web developer.

By: 360Developer ~ 360Mobile » Freemarker, JSP Alternative

360Developer ~ 360Mobile » Freemarker, JSP Alternative — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:15:08 +0000

[...] example above comes from a tool called FreeMarker Sketchbook written by Harald Walker. This tool is a Java Web Start application that enables you to write [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:23:19 +0000

Hi Harald
This is a very nice tool.
For my end of the year project, I need a freemarker editor under Flex (Adobe RIA). Did you intend to develop a version with Adobe Technology ? If no, would you be so kind as to send me your code so that I can transfer it from Java to Flex ? It would help me a lot.
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Alex

By: Harald

Harald — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:41:43 +0000

I started working on 0.2 and as another first time, I am using Netbeans 6.0 instead of Eclipse. It is looking promising but doesn’t really run fast enough on my old PowerBook. So I will probably be waiting for my new Mac Book Pro, which should arrive by the end of this month.

Features/improvement planned:
- open/save functions
- syntax highlighting
- nicer looking GUI
- external XML feed support
- error pane instead of inline errors

By: cherouvim

cherouvim — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:24:24 +0000

Nice one!

FreeMarker rocks!

By: Roepie

Roepie — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:51:48 +0000

Pretty cewl; would be nice if you could create your own lists of data, but for a first release pretty good.