Templates are represented by
freemarker.template.Template instances. Typically
you obtain a Template instance from the
Configuration instance, using its.
getTemplate method. If you store the example template in the
test.ftlh file of the earlier set
directory, then you can do this:
Template temp = cfg.getTemplate("test.ftlh"); This gives you a Template instance that was
created by reading
/where/you/store/templates/test.ftlh
and parsing it. The Template instance stores the
template in parsed form, and not as text. If the template is missing
or syntactically incorrect, getTemplate will throw
exception instead.
Configuration caches
Template instances, so when you call
cfg.getTemplate("test.ftlh") next time, it probably
won't read and parse the template file again, just returns the same
Template instance as for the first time.