Great question – I solved my issue today as follows using Ecilpse: Put your template in the same folder hierarchy as your source code (not in a separate folder hierarchy even if you include it in the build path) as below: In your code simply use the following lines of code (assuming you just want … Read more
Use StringSubstitutor from Apache Commons Text. https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/ It will do it for you (and its open source…) Map<String, String> valuesMap = new HashMap<String, String>(); valuesMap.put(“animal”, “quick brown fox”); valuesMap.put(“target”, “lazy dog”); String templateString = “The ${animal} jumped over the ${target}.”; StringSubstitutor sub = new StringSubstitutor(valuesMap); String resolvedString = sub.replace(templateString);