Hi folks, since I'm currently mostly busy with non-coding tasks I spent some time honing my coding skills - probably to no avail as my colleagues would say ;-)
1) I migrated my pet project "freemarker-cli" from Groovy to JDK 8 (see https://github.com/sgoeschl/freemarker-cli <https://github.com/sgoeschl/freemarker-cli>) 2) At https://github.com/sgoeschl/presentations/blob/master/javameetup/freemarker/slides/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc <https://github.com/sgoeschl/presentations/blob/master/javameetup/freemarker/slides/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc> you find a presentation I gave some while ago 3) I also wrote a Spring Boot FreeMarker sample project as part of the presentation (see https://github.com/sgoeschl/presentations/tree/master/javameetup/freemarker/demo <https://github.com/sgoeschl/presentations/tree/master/javameetup/freemarker/demo>) My plans / questions I would be awesome if I could get some feedback about "freemarker-cli" in its current JDK incarnation :-) Later on I will release 2.0.0 and push it to Maven Central. In the mean time I wrote three applications (micro services in new speak) using Apache FreeMarker and found it hard to find a starting point for a Spring Boot applications - therefore I wrote the sample project (see above). One way or the other a Spring Boot (and Micronaut) blue print should find its way into Apache FreeMarker officially. I think Apache FreeMarker is awesome for adding a developer UI to some micro service but developers don't care about the template engine but only about a quick and painless way to get the job done ... Anyone volunteering to give a presentation about Apache Freemarker at ApacheCon? I could do but I'm not really qualified :-) Thanks in advance, Siegfried Goeschl
