Thoughts on agile software development
The latest version of FreshMarker, the Java template engine, is now available. Version 2.0.0 introduces several improvements, new features, and a more streamlined foundation with an emphasis on cleaner templating capabilities.
FreshMarker allows you to overload a wide variety of operators for your own model types. These operators are multiplication, addition, negation and comparison operators. For strings, the addition operator + has so far been overloaded to realize a string concatenation. In this blog post, we want to implement comparison operators for strings.
For the next version of FreshMarker, a number of new options will be created for the template engine. These new possibilities include the Spaceship Operator and a new String Concatenation Operator.
I am pleased to announce the release of the Java 21 template engine FreshMarker 1.11.0. This is the last planned release before the next major release 2.0.0 and includes some new features and improvements.
Some features in open source projects are gimmicks whose utility value is rather low. On the other hand, they enable the evaluation of new functions and previously unused libraries. In this article, support for astronomical seasons is implemented in Freshmarker using the Time4J library.
The FreshMarker Switch Directive is an unusual representative of its kind. Since it has been implemented according to the possibilities of its syntax description in the CongoCC example source code, it is capable of quite unusual working methods. Some special cases could be processed faster with an optimized version. Therefore, the Switch Directive is optimized for constants in this article.
I am pleased to announce the release of the Java 21 template engine FreshMarker 1.10.0. The version includes some new features and improvements.
The Partial Template Reduction feature allows FreshMarker templates to be simplified. Part of the model is used to evaluate expressions in directives and interpolations and generate a new template. A template reduced in this way contains fewer dynamic and more static parts and can therefore be evaluated more quickly. Until now, list directives were excluded from the simplification options. This can now change under certain circumstances.
The blog posts on the FreshMarker template engine pursue several goals. On the one hand, the posts should of course entertain their readers. On the other hand, they also serve me to focus and document my ideas on various aspects of the implementation. One very interesting topic in this post is the management of variables within the Template Engine.
I am pleased to announce the release of FreshMarker 1.9.0. The version includes some new features and improvements. The library is now available on Maven Central. And for all those who like a cheat sheet, there is now one available here.