Freemarker Template Organization Best Practices?

Greetings All,

I followed the instructions provided by Daniel on adding a header and footer to a template. (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user/4797) Things are working well (thanks Daniel!) and I was just wondering if there is a best practice or usage pattern that would be better than what I am doing.

My idea was to organize my templates and macros where each section of the site has its own template path. Something like this:

/templateRoot/common.ftl
/templateRoot/myServlet/list.ftl <-- needs main.ftl for header and footer.

To achieve this I overrode the requestUrlToTemplatePath method on the FreemarkerServlet as follows.

@Override
protected String requestUrlToTemplatePath( final HttpServletRequest request ) {
    final String path = super.requestUrlToTemplatePath( request );
    return this.getClass().getSimpleName() + path;
};

Is there a better way to do this (or something similar)? I have looked for a Freemarker Best Practices and haven't found a whole lot.

Best,

Keith

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