Fully extendable java html template engine

templateReplace.java

 // regex for uri template pattern
public static Pattern TEMPLATE_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("\\{(.*?)\\}");  

public static String templateReplace(String template,
            Map<String, Object> properties) {
        String result = template;
        try {
            if (template != null && template.contains("{")
                    && template.contains("}")) {
                Matcher m = TEMPLATE_PATTERN.matcher(template);
                while (m.find()) {
                    String param = m.group(1);
                    if (properties.containsKey(param)) {
                        // replace template tokens
                        result = template.replaceAll(
                                "\\{" + Pattern.quote(param) + "\\}",
                                properties.get(param).toString());
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            logger.error("An error occurred while replacing tokens in ["
                    + template + "]", e);
        }
        return result;
    }