As far as I remember their plugin was based on the "FreeMarker IDE" JBoss plugin. Have you also tried that plugin? (In Eclipse, "Help" / "Install New Software...", http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/neon/snapshots/builds/jbosstools-freemarker_master/latest/all/repo/) Is there much difference? I remember they have tried to add debugging support, but I don't know how far that got.
BTW, contributing to the Eclipse plugin is an effective way of helping the project. It's at JBoss though, not at ASF. (But see on http://freemarker.org/contribute.html) Thursday, June 16, 2016, 8:54:41 PM, Pete Helgren wrote: > Well, "recent" IS recent. Like two weeks ago I pulled down Liferay 7.0 > and started to see if we could migrate our stuff from 6.0.6 to 7.0. > 6.0.6 has support for both Velocity and Freemarker but most of the UI > templates were in Velocity although I think they used Freemarker pretty > extensively in their templates for their "service builder" application. > Supposedly there is parity in the out of the box templates for UI but I > already tripped across a couple of templates that had a more complete > Velocity implementation than FM. > > IOW it's too soon to have an opinion. You may not remember but I am > *still* using Jonathan Revusky's "Niggle" project, which wraps > Freemarker, so I use Freemarker nominally but will be using templates > more. Liferay developed, or enhanced, a Freemarker syntax highlighting > plugin which I have appreciated. > > Once I get my feet a bit more "wet" I'll probably have a better opinion > on the templating side. > > Pete Helgren > www.petesworkshop.com > GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java > > On 6/16/2016 11:55 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote: >> Hi Pete, >> >> Liferay is one of the more important FM users today, based on the >> number of FM questions on StackOverflow that are Liferay related. So >> it would be interesting to know what are the top annoyances or other >> improvement ideas in that particular environment. Can you tell any? >> >> >> Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 4:19:18 PM, Pete Helgren wrote: >> >>> On 6/14/2016 12:20 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote: >>>> Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 1:55:05 PM, Sergio Fernández wrote: >>>> >>>> [snip] >>>>> Definitively I used Freemarker much more in the past than currently, >>>>> but Web development has changed a lot, moving more stuff to the >>>>> frontend (10 years ago we didn't have AngularJS). >>>> Yip, that's why I intend to focus on non-Web applications much more in >>>> FM 3. There are some interesting challenges there. One is the common >>>> need for the much smarter handling of white-space. Another is entering >>>> templates in WYSIWYG editors (it has some tricky aspects). Would be >>>> fun to work on those instead of fighting with FM 2 legacy. >>>> >>> +1 >>> >>> Most of my involvement is from a user perspective and I really haven't >>> used much template stuff in a while but in the past 4 years have worked >>> with Liferay portal and they use both Velocity and Freemarker and have >>> recently shifted more to Freemarker. So after being out of the template >>> arena for a while, I am back in. >>> >>> My Java skills aren't nearly at the level the rest of the group on this >>> list has but I will try to jump in on the stuff that can fit my skill level. >>> >>> Pete > > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
