Rodolfo Baeza

Hi, if you are using Tomcat maybe you can try using the filter from this page: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8

That solved my encoding problems with words with accents in spanish.

You can also try http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.object-refinery.com/jfreereport/ both allows you to generate PDF reports from any swing or web application, and both are open source.

You can try http://www.opencms.org
It's a content management system like php-nuke or something like that, but it's java based.