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Handling templates in NetBeans was designed long ago and don't reflect using template engines like FreeMarker yet, Template Manager was introduced before using template engines as well. It's need to review handling of file templates again and adapt using template engines better.
Evaluation will be available soon on http://wiki.netbeans.org/FileTemplatesOpenIssues