Unable to use Rythm template engine with servlet 3.0

Question

I am trying to use Rythm templating engine with servlet 3.0 on tomcat7.
I want to render template from WebContent directory to Rythm engine. But it is not detecting the template.

In servlet init() method I initialized Rthym engine as

public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
        Map <String, Object> context = new HashMap <String, Object> ();
        //String filePath = new File("").getAbsolutePath();
        //filePath.concat("WebContent");
        context.put("home.template", "WebContent");
        Rythm.init(context);
    }

then I tried to render my NewFile.html with Rythm.render in doGet method as

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        Map <String, Object> args = new HashMap <String, Object> ();
        args.put("a", "World");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println(Rythm.render("NewFile.html", args));
    }

But it is showing just "NewFile.html" in browser (Not content of NewFile.html but only String "NewFile.html"

Answer 1

I had a similar issue with Rythm and in my case it helped to write the directory in front of the filename:

Rythm.render("templates/" + templateFileName, parameters);

Setting the home.template variable didn't work for me too.