configuration spring boot dependency for freemarker configuration

1. Add the Freemarker dependency to your Maven or Gradle build file:

Maven: xml <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-freemarker</artifactId> </dependency>

Gradle: gradle implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-freemarker'

1. Create a configuration class to customize the Freemarker settings:

```java import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean; import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration; import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer;

@Configuration public class FreemarkerConfig {

   @Bean
   public FreeMarkerConfigurer freeMarkerConfigurer() {
       FreeMarkerConfigurer configurer = new FreeMarkerConfigurer();
       // Set Freemarker settings as needed
       // For example, to set template loader path:
       // configurer.setTemplateLoaderPath("classpath:/templates/");
       return configurer;
   }

} ```

Customize the FreeMarkerConfigurer bean according to your requirements.

1. (Optional) If you want to specify additional properties for Freemarker, you can do so in the application.properties or application.yml file:

properties spring.freemarker.settings.property_name=value

Replace property_name and value with the Freemarker property and its corresponding value.

Example:

properties spring.freemarker.settings.locale=en_US

This step is optional, and you can skip it if you don't need to customize Freemarker properties.

That's it! With these steps, you've configured Freemarker in a Spring Boot project.