Comments on: FreeMarker Sketchbook 0.1

By: Harald Walker

Harald Walker — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:01:11 +0000

When I saw freemarkertook.com I basically lost interest in this project. Unfortunately freemarkertool.com is no longer available. I’ll see if I can find time to re-activate the Sketchbook project or otherwise create and host something like freemarkertool.com.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:39:10 +0000

I downloaded the required jars and ran it as java app. It works. It would have been good if it can be repackaged for support in current java webstar release! Nevertheless, it helped me – Thanks Harald.

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.