regarding promoting freemarker: We are already doing that in our Cloud-Data-platform where you can use freemarker to do almost anything to transform, map and manipulate data. We use it for our own application too (all templates) but we also have chosen Freemarker as the main internal scripting language for data transformation.
Here is a small example <https://apps.synesty.com/transformy/en-us?m=7cd5ac359c284775a45fd96df032e896> which just concatenates two variables in the column "newtitle". Check it out if you want. It goes in a similar direction as http://freemarker-online. kenshoo.com/ That being said I think we are also happy to contribute interesting usecases, examples and whatever which could be spread using SocialMedia. We have lots of examples in our own documentation (here <https://synesty.freshdesk.com/support/search/solutions?term=freemarker>) (it"s german...just use google translator) where we show how to do various stuff with Freemarker expressions. We have also written some own functions ( here <http://docs.synesty.com/display/SSUD/Spreadsheets#Spreadsheets-TemplateFunktionen>) which could also be useful maybe as core built-ins (see here <http://docs.synesty.com/display/SSUD/Spreadsheets#Spreadsheets-TemplateFunktionen> ) Just let me know if this is interesting, so we can think about concrete stuff we could contribute where it fits. I don't want this to be considered spam - so let me know what you think... but of course it would be promotion for us too :) Christoph 2017-01-07 13:36 GMT+01:00 Daniel Dekany <ddek...@freemail.hu>: > 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? > > > Maybe this could come as a separate JAR to avoid loading UI classes > unnecessarily. > > > Cheers, > > — Denis. > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany > > -- Christoph Rüger, Geschäftsführer Synesty <https://synesty.com/> - Automatisierung, Schnittstellen, Datenfeeds Tel.: +49 3641/559649 Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Christoph_Rueger2 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christoph-rueger/a/685/198 -- Synesty GmbH Moritz-von-Rohr-Str. 1a 07745 Jena Tel.: +49 3641 559649 Fax.: +49 3641 5596499 Internet: http://synesty.com Geschäftsführer: Christoph Rüger Unternehmenssitz: Jena Handelsregister B beim Amtsgericht: Jena Handelsregister-Nummer: HRB 508766 Ust-IdNr.: DE287564982
