Thanks René! I’m gonna check out ERXSimpleTemplateParser. Maybe that will fill 
the role I’m looking for. Should have known there might be something in Wonder 
to handle this.

I guess one argument for using something outside of ER* is that the code 
becomes more portable.

Tim

> On Oct 9, 2015, at 9:01 AM, René Bock <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> did you have a look at ERXSimpleTemplateParser?
> 
> This works great, if you have simple text mail with placeholders containing 
> keypaths.
> 
> On the other side, you may use WOComponents as "template engine",
> 
> Regards,
> 
>       René
> 
>> Am 09.10.2015 um 17:39 schrieb T Worman <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> 
>> Reaching out to the list to see what my fellow abandonees prefer for 
>> templating. My needs are pretty simple - I’m just looking to use templates 
>> to compose emails. I have far too many email methods where the bodies of the 
>> emails are completely composed in code and I’d really like to move that out 
>> to some template engine.
>> 
>> So, the question is, what template engine do you prefer for this kind of 
>> work? Obviously, we’ve already got velocity producing our EO .java files - 
>> and I’m sure that’s workable. Any strong preferences out there?
>> 
>> I really like StringTemplate (http://www.stringtemplate.org 
>> <http://www.stringtemplate.org/>). A feature I liked was the ability to pass 
>> an object to the template and the template could contain “keypaths” to 
>> attributes of the object - very much like we expect from the WO template 
>> engine. However, it would not work with accessors that do not use the get* 
>> convention - which I haven’t. I could convert but not sure it is worth it.
>> 
>> Tim
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