Is there a HTML templating engine for Google App Engine (in Java)?

Question

Looking for something simple (like Smarty for PHP or erb in Rails), but that will allow nesting templates inside each other. Does App Engine have anything built-in, or will I need to look into something separate (like Velocity?)?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you're looking at Velocity, you may also want to consider Freemarker. It has a more complex, but correspondingly richer, markup language than Apache Velocity.

Answer 2

If you need the templating engine for creating HTML pages (or other content that you are sending to the user directly), you could use JSP, I suppose.

JSP support comes built-in with App Engine.

Answer 3

See this http://solveme.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/freemarker-sucks-it-has-dependency-on-javax-swing/

Freemarker won't work on gae at this time