In today’s fast paced world every minute is very important. In the corporate world and also otherwise Documentation is very important for various purposes like version control, proofs, consent, copyrights and expectations and outcomes/reports. So, because of these reasons template engines have become very important and extremely necessary for the world. Template engines are basically software that help us create result documents from data models and templates by combining them. This paper presents a survey on the newest development of research work on template engines for java, along with an in-depth outline of its research. To the best of what developments have been achieved till now, this survey paper has been written. Finally, the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the various template engines for java, have been tabulated as a part of the results.