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FreeMarker is a java based template engine for complex template processing. This requires the library freemarker-2.3.16.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows various date and time format settings in FreeMarker.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/freemarker/tests/DateTimeSettingsTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.freemarker.tests;



import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.Map;



import freemarker.template.Configuration;

import freemarker.template.Template;

import freemarker.template.TemplateException;



public class DateTimeSettingsTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws TemplateException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, TemplateException  {



    //Get template from classpath

    Configuration cfg = new Configuration();

    cfg.setClassForTemplateLoading(DateTimeSettingsTest.class, "/");

    Template template = cfg.getTemplate("datetime.ftl");

    

    //Prepare data model

    Map<String, Object> dataModel = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    dataModel.put("bday", new Date());

    

    //Merge template and data

    OutputStreamWriter output = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out);

    template.process(dataModel, output);

  }

}

Date Time Format Settings