Re: Cannot load template in Linux using Spring FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory

This is more a Spring question than a FreeMarker question. Maybe you
should look into the source code of FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory and
of the TemplateLoader implementation that Spring uses to find out
what's going on.

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Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 10:12:59 PM, Peter Kleczka wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a web app on Tomcat 6 that loads FreeMarker templates via
> org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory.
> The web app is plain JSP (not Spring MVC). The app works fine in a
> Windows environment, but will not work on Linux (Slackware 13.37 64
> bit). When I run it on Linux it gives me a file not found exception.
> I have tried multiple variations on this configuration including
> putting my templates directory in the classpath, using Spring
> prefixes like "file:" and "classpath:" for the templateLoaderPath. 
> Nothing has worked.  Please let me know if you have any ideas to fix. Thanks, Peter.
>
>     <!-- Freemarker template config factory. Works on Windows -->
>     <bean id="freemarkerTemplateConfigFactory"
> class="org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory">
>         <property name="templateLoaderPath" value="/WEB-INF/ftemplates/" />
>     </bean>
>
>     <bean id="templateService"
> class="com.mypkg.service.TemplateService">
>        <property name="configurationFactory"
> ref="freemarkerTemplateConfigFactory" />
>     </bean>


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