How to create java object in Freemarker?

If you are using Freemarker integrated with struts, look at the class org.apache.struts2.views.freemarker.FreemarkerResult. In this class there is a method createModel(). There you have a list of objects inserted into model used in freemarker rendering.

• Application - servlet context attributes hash model
• JspTaglibs - jsp tag lib factory model
• Request - request attributes hash model
• Session - session attributes hash model
• request - the HttpServletRequst object for direct access
• response - the HttpServletResponse object for direct access
• stack - the OgnLValueStack instance for direct access
• ognl - the instance of the OgnlTool
• action - the action itself
• exception - optional : the JSP or Servlet exception as per the servlet spec (for JSP Exception pages)
• struts - instance of the StrutsUtil class

In the ftl code you can use struts variable:

struts.bean("java.util.Date")

It will return object of this type, constructed with zero parameter constructor.