How to process a bean and hash at the same time?

Hello, I'm working on a framework and considering using Freemarker for UI
layer. In order to achieve this, I will need the engine to recognize objects
as beans and maps at the same time. In other words, I would have a class:

public class Person extends HashMap {
    private String name;
    public Person(String name) {name = name;}
    public String getName() {return name;}
}


Merging code:

Map root = new HashMap();
Person p = new Person("John");
p.put("age", 39);
root.put("da_bean", p);
template.process(root, out);

...and the template:

Map: ${da_bean.age}
<br>
Bean: ${da_bean.name}

The class Person is a Map and is also a bean (has a "name" property). I
looked at the documentation, API and source code, and it seems that I will
have to write a custom wrapper and a template model, but without a good
understanding of the internal architecture, this might be a whole new
project.

Is there a way to achieve this easier? Am I going in the wrong direction?

Thanks much for all the help!

igor 
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