The only Eclipse plugin in reasonable state for editing FreeMarker templates is "FreeMarker IDE", which is part of the JBoss Tools project. See the top entry at https://freemarker.apache.org/editors.html, and also https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-freemarker.
However, RedHat has deprecated and now removed the "FreeMarker IDE" plugin from JBoss Tools and Devstudio. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49072160/why-is-freemarker-ide-in-eclipse-oxygen-jboss-tools-4-5-2-final-deprecated https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-25736 So I think "FreeMarker IDE" should be brought over to the ASF, similarly as FreeMarker-Online was. Also the Eclipse update "site" should be hosted on ASF infrastructure. I have started a discussion to explore this possibility, and so far it seems it's fine on their side: http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jbosstools-dev/2018-March/subject.html The code is under EPL, but of course they should "contribute" the code the ASF where we can replace the license with ASL2, and rename the packages. Technically, "FreeMarker IDE" is independent of the rest of JBoss Tools, we only had to substitute org.jboss.tools:parent (as it's not in the Maven Central, it's not an acceptable dependency IMO). What do you think? Will the ASF be fine with bringing over yet another FreeMarker related project? Do you think it's good to do? My opinion is that the more control we have over such products, the easier it is to ensure that they remain maintained and available to the users. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
