Write HTML file using Java

Question

I want my Java application to write HTML code in a file. Right now, I am hard coding HTML tags using java.io.BufferedWriter class. For Example:

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Answer 1

If you want to do that yourself, without using any external library, a clean way would be to create a template.html file with all the static content, like for example:

$body

Put a tag like $tag for any dynamic content and then do something like this:

File htmlTemplateFile = new File("path/template.html");
String htmlString = FileUtils.readFileToString(htmlTemplateFile);
String title = "New Page";
String body = "This is Body";
htmlString = htmlString.replace("$title", title);
htmlString = htmlString.replace("$body", body);
File newHtmlFile = new File("path/new.html");
FileUtils.writeStringToFile(newHtmlFile, htmlString);

Note: I used org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils for simplicity.