If By "Templating" you mean something similar to Smarty or Twig ( facilities to render pages of HTML with conditionals and variables ) then Java is a fine choic

If By "Templating" you mean something similar to Smarty or Twig ( facilities to render pages of HTML with conditionals and variables ) then Java is a fine choice for this. Spring is unnecessary - the Java templating mechanism is called JSP ( Java Server Pages ) and its part of the standard Java package - no additional framework is required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Pages To do this you will need a runtime container like Apache Tomcat. ( http://www.tutorialspoint.com/articles/run-your-first-jsp-program-in-apache-tomcat-server http://www.tutorialspoint.com/articles/run-your-first-jsp-pr...) If you're hell bent on running Spring ( its entirely not necessary ) you can use Spring MVC which is part of Spring Framework. Here's an example https://www.mkyong.com/spring-mvc/spring-mvc-hello-world-example/ https://www.mkyong.com/spring-mvc/spring-mvc-hello-world-exa...