Chunk, an HTML Template Engine for Java
Clean, powerful templates for Java
Description
A powerful Java Template Engine, great for building HTML or XML docs. Chunk can handle many other needs and situations as well. In-tag filters & default values, multiple snippets per file, layered themes, macros, conditional includes, localization & more.
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- Self-contained: one small jar provides most common functionality.
- Nestable loops and conditionals (if-elseIf-else).
- Macros, Includes and Conditional Includes.
- Curly-brace {$tags} pop nicely in docs already full of <AngleBrackets>.
- Natural templates - can still validate as xml/xhtml.
- Flexible null-handling; template designer may specify default tag values.
- Built-in library of powerful in-tag filters a la {$tag|trim}, including regex, sprintf.
- Localization framework.
- Easy MVC: Glue a model to a template view with a single line of code.
- Support for theme layers.
- Define multiple snippets per template file.
- Highly optimized codebase.
- Hooks for extending; define your own tag filters.
- Eclipse Template Editor plugin available with syntax highlighting & more.
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Way cleaner than jsp. Can set up simple templates or try out some of the advanced features. So nice to be able to tweak a tag's output with a regular expression "pipe" filter.