> Le 7 janv. 2017 à 12:36, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Saturday, January 7, 2017, 9:37:36 AM, Denis Bredelet wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >>>> That was also my impression on the OFBiz tweet, as a software >>>> developer. The last is important, that I'm looking at it as a >>>> developer. FreeMarker, unless OFBiz, is mostly only interesting for >>>> them I believe. It doesn't have an UI that a manager type could click >>>> around. It's not a complete end-user product, it's Java library used >>>> internally by other products. >> >> I am thinking of contributing a very simple UI for FreeMarker. >> Something able to read a single template and process it with a >> datamodel pulled from various sources (user interface window, properties >> file, XML file…) >> >> Would that be useful and help with advertising FreeMarker? > > I believe it's something that many users need, because it's not always > convenient to try things right in the real product that integrates > FreeMarker. Especially if you just want the wrap your head around > something you have just read in the Manual. So I was considering > creating a such GUI, only my priorities (core maintenance) didn't > allow that. And then suddenly come > http://freemarker-online.kenshoo.com/, so we do have something like > that, but it could be improved further, also perhaps an offline > version (like a SWT application or such) can be handy (if you want to > connect to a local DB, etc). > > These template evaluators are also useful to draw the user's attention > to best practices and features. Like if you go to > http://freemarker-online.kenshoo.com/, you will be aware of output > formats, a relatively novel but very useful feature. > >> I have some code to use as a starting point on my website: >> http://bredelet.com/Denis/FreeMarker%20first%20steps.html > > These are some getting started examples. What are your ideas about the > final product?
I am thinking of adding a « main » function in the FreeMarker JAR to load a template and a model (as XML or properties, that is why I showed the link). Then create a separate JAR with the UI to load the template and datamodel from the filesystem or define a datamodel interactively, and save the processed template in a file. Cheers, — Denis. >> Maybe this could come as a separate JAR to avoid loading UI classes >> unnecessarily. > >> Cheers, >> — Denis. > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany >
