Jakarta Commons Cookbook

9.15. Writing Templates in Eclipse

Problem

You are writing a fair amount of Velocity and FreeMarker templates, and you are looking for a tool that can do some syntax highlighting, validation, and code completion.

Solution

If you are writing Velocity templates, use the Velocity UI for Eclipse. To get this plug-in, point your Eclipse Update Manager at http://veloedit.sourceforge.net/updates/.

If you are writing FreeMarker templates, use the FreeMarker Eclipse plug-in. To get this plug-in, point your Eclipse Update Manager at http://www.freemarker.org/eclipse/update.

See Also

The FreeMarker project maintains templates, plug-ins, and modes for Eclipse, Emacs, jEdit, KWrite, TextPad 4, and Vim. These tools are described on the FreeMarker site at http://freemarker.org/editors.html.

The Velocity project has pointers to templates, plug-ins, and modes for IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, UltraEdit, JEdit, TextPad, and Emacs. These tools are described on the Velocity site at http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/devtools.html.

For more information about Eclipse, see Steve Holzner’s Eclipse (O’Reilly) and Eclipse Cookbook (O’Reilly).