Nice FreeMarker (FTL) Editor for Eclipse

If you are working on a java project, and are using freemarker template language (FTL) for front end, you would have noticed the default editor doesn’t show any ftl tags in different colors, or autocomplete them.

If you are looking for a good editor for eclipse with FTL support, JBoss Tools may be of some help for you.

You can install it, from an update site – http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/helios/

For installing, open eclipse, than go to Help > Install New Software >> add the above update site url, From the many installations available from that update site, you can just install the editor, you can just install the ‘FreeMarker IDE’ from All JBoss Tools menu. See below screenshot for help.

I hope you find it useful 🙂