Templates is how Dust renders pages and components. The template engine is based on XML-input and outputs clean HTML. By default templates share the same name as their class files but ending with .xml.

For example the Java-class org/example/Test.java would have its template in org/example/Test.xml.

A template might look like this:

<d:loop xmlns:d="dust:common"
	source="${values}" value="${value}">
	${value}<br />
</d:loop>

With this class to provide its values:

public class Test {
	public String[] getValues() {
		return new String[] { "One", "Two", "Three" };
	}

	public String getValue() {
		return values;
	)

	public void setValue(String value) {
		this.value = value;
	}
}

Use with JAX-RS

Any JAX-RS resource that returns an object annotated with @Template will be rendered via its template.

Components

Templates can reference components from other namespaces. Dust provides a standard set of components in dust:common.

Read more about components