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I have a working java code for template matching as below:

import org.opencv.core.Core;
import org.opencv.core.Core.MinMaxLocResult;
import org.opencv.core.CvType;
import org.opencv.core.Mat;
import org.opencv.core.Point;
import org.opencv.core.Scalar;
import org.opencv.highgui.Highgui;
import org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc;


class MatchingDemo {
public void run(String inFile, String templateFile, String outFile, int match_method) {
    System.out.println("\nRunning Template Matching");

    Mat img = Highgui.imread(inFile);
    Mat templ = Highgui.imread(templateFile);

    // / Create the result matrix
    int result_cols = img.cols() - templ.cols() + 1;
    int result_rows = img.rows() - templ.rows() + 1;
    Mat result = new Mat(result_rows, result_cols, CvType.CV_32FC1);

    // / Do the Matching and Normalize
    Imgproc.matchTemplate(img, templ, result, match_method);
    Core.normalize(result, result, 0, 1, Core.NORM_MINMAX, -1, new Mat());

    // / Localizing the best match with minMaxLoc
    MinMaxLocResult mmr = Core.minMaxLoc(result);

    Point matchLoc;
    if (match_method == Imgproc.TM_SQDIFF || match_method == Imgproc.TM_SQDIFF_NORMED) {
        matchLoc = mmr.minLoc;
    } else {
        matchLoc = mmr.maxLoc;
    }

    // / Show me what you got
    Core.rectangle(img, matchLoc, new Point(matchLoc.x + templ.cols(),
            matchLoc.y + templ.rows()), new Scalar(0, 255, 0));

    Core.rectangle(result, matchLoc, new Point(matchLoc.x + templ.cols(),
            matchLoc.y + templ.rows()), new Scalar(0, 255, 0));

    // Save the visualized detection.
    System.out.println("Writing "+ outFile);
    Highgui.imwrite("pics/colored_original.png", img);
    Highgui.imwrite("pics/newresult2.png", result);

 }
}

I want to see the gray blurry Matching Result picture as on OpenCV documentation

The code is almost identical with template matching documentation here

The variable should be "result" right? and "newresult2.png" but all I see is a black image and nothing else but the "colored_original.png" comes out very good, the match area is correct. What am I doing wrong or what is missing?