Re: Best practices for Freemarker templates and UI development

Hi Shivani,

> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the Freemarker and want to know what are the best practices related to UI development, when using templates.
> 
> Are UI developers supposed to work directly with Freemarker templates(coding in FTL) or they work in their own repository(using their own tools) and then port changes to templates.

If possible designers should add FreeMarker directives in the markup. For example in a Dreamweaver HTML page.

There are things that you want to keep separate (specially macros), and these should be saved in a separate file and imported in your template.

> Also, how changes in templates are tested by UI developers, are they supposed to change Java objects too?

The Java objects are changed by the application, what do you mean?

If the application is not finished you can feed the template with values from a JSON or XML file.

— Denis.

> -- 
> Shivani Maheshwari


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