Change the default redirection to a freemarker extensions:
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<regex-view-manager>/$component/$logic.$result.ftl</regex-view-manager>
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The following code was extracted from freemarker's docs:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>freemarker</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>freemarker.ext.servlet.FreemarkerServlet</servlet-class>
<!-- FreemarkerServlet settings: -->
<init-param>
<param-name>TemplatePath</param-name>
<param-value>/</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>NoCache</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>ContentType</param-name>
<param-value>text/html</param-value>
</init-param>
<!-- FreeMarker settings: -->
<init-param>
<param-name>template_update_delay</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value> <!-- 0 is for development only! Use higher value otherwise. -->
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>default_encoding</param-name>
<param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>number_format</param-name>
<param-value>0.##########</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>freemarker</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.ftl</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping> Now you are ready to write your *ftl*-extension files using freemarker!