Download. About The Template Engine. StringTemplate was born and evolved during the development of The need for such dynamically-generated web pages has led to the development of numerous other template engines in an attempt to make web application development easier, improve flexibility, reduce maintenance costs, and allow parallel code and HTML development. These enticing benefits, which have driven the proliferation of template engines, derive entirely from a single principle: separating the specification of a page's business logic and data computations from the specification of how a page displays such information.
These template engines are in a sense are a reaction to the completely entangled specifications encouraged by JSP (Java Server Pages). With separate encapsulated specifications, template engines promote component reuse, pluggable site "looks", single-points-of-change for common components, and high overall system clarity. I let my needs dictate the language and tool feature set. Template Engine.