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    <bean id="freemarkerConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer">
        <property name="templateLoaderPath" value="classpath:templates"/>
        <property name="freemarkerSettings">
            <props>
                <prop key="localized_lookup">false</prop>
                <prop key="datetime_format">MM/dd/yyyy</prop>
                <prop key="number_format">#</prop>
                <prop key="whitespace_stripping">true</prop>
                <prop key="template_update_delay">0</prop>
                <prop key="output_encoding">UTF-8</prop>
                <prop key="default_encoding">UTF-8</prop>
                <prop key="url_escaping_charset">UTF-8</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
        <property name="freemarkerVariables">
            <map>
                <entry key="href" value-ref="hrefMethod"/>
                <entry key="block" value-ref="blockDirective"/>
                <entry key="override" value-ref="overrideDirective"/>
                <entry key="extends" value-ref="extendsDirective"/>
                <entry key="resource" value-ref="resourceDirective"/>
                <entry key="texy" value-ref="texyMethod"/>
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>