Freemarker in Java app server, best practices

I currently use JSP, and am trying to migrate to Freemarker. In my JSP 
pages I normally have a backing Java class, one per page, and just 
instantiate it at the top of the page. I then call page.getThis() and 
.getThat() lower down in the page.

I'm not quite sure how to get the same functionality in Freemarker. I 
could create a custom servlet for each .ftl page and then map one to the 
other in web.xml, but that seems like a waste. I'd rather be able to 
specify the appropriate servlet class right at the top of the ftl page, 
and then I won't have to add anything to web.xml.

I looked at the example code in webapp2 in the Freemarker download, but 
it seems really convoluted and uses reflection, which just isn't very 
efficient.

What's the best way to do this?


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