gistfile1.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <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>
            </props>
        </property>
        <property name="freemarkerVariables">
            <map>
                <entry key="href" value-ref="linkMethod" />
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="cacheStorage" class="freemarker.cache.NullCacheStorage"/>
    <bean id="linkMethod" class="org.maite.templating.LinkMethod" />
</beans>