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SimpleTemplate is a Java-based template engine. Compared to JSP, its main advantage is the clear separation of page code (most often HTML) and java code.

[edit] Hello World

The following template:

<html>
<body>
Hello {VAR XX}
</body>
</html>

processed by SimpleTemplate and the following java code:

TemplateEngine.stFilenamePrefix=
   "c:/franksordner/dev/SimpleTemplate/examples/";
TemplateEngine engine=new TemplateEngine();                                        
engine.useTemplate("Hello.tpl");     
engine.setVariable("XX","World!");
StringBuffer outb=engine.createOutput();
FileWriter fw=new FileWriter("./output/Hello.html");
fw.write(outb.toString());
fw.close();

will produce the following text:

<html>
<body>
Hello World!
</body>
</html>

Note that this example is very simple. The power of a good template engine will manifest itself as soon as more complex operations, such as iterative Sections are used. See this example to appreciate the usefulness of SimpleTemplate.