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Java 8 vs Apache FreeMarker: What are the differences?
What is Java 8? *A development environment for building applications *. It is a revolutionary release of the world’s no 1 development platform. It includes a huge upgrade to the Java programming model and a coordinated evolution of the JVM, Java language, and libraries. Java 8 includes features for productivity, ease of use, improved polyglot programming, security and improved performance.
What is Apache FreeMarker? A free Java-based template engine. It is a "template engine"; a generic tool to generate text output (anything from HTML to auto generated source code) based on templates. It's a Java package, a class library for Java programmers.
Java 8 and Apache FreeMarker can be categorized as "Java" tools.
Apache FreeMarker is an open source tool with 474 GitHub stars and 142 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache FreeMarker's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Java 8 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 44 developers stacks; compared to Apache FreeMarker, which is listed in 41 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.