5.10. FreeMarker and the Java Bean Cartridge

The FreeMarkerNodeModel is powerful and easy to use, but this comes at a trade-off in terms of performance. It is not "cheap" to construct W3C DOMs. It also may be the case that the required data has already been extracted and populated into a Java object model, an example being when the data also needs to be routed to a Java Message Service endpoint as a set of objects.

When using the NodeModel would be impractical, use the Java Bean Cartridge to populate a proper Java object or a virtual model. This model can then be used in the FreeMarker templating process.