Report from Java Application

[Amit Agarwal]

I want to generate a report from a Java Application. The Application will be installed on standalone systems. There will be probably no webserver / backend available. This report needs to be printable also.
My guess was to generate a HTML page from the application itself. Should I use DOM to generate such a page or is there a better way out?
I am open to anything else that could help me generate the report. The data for the report will comprise of selected parts of a XML file which is generated from the applicaiotn using DOM (JAXP 1.1).
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Amit

[Ajith Kallambella]

If the data is already in the XML format, you should consider using a XSL Transfomrations to generate the output file. Simply store your output formatting logic in the stylesheet and apply transfomrations through the Java program.
IMO this will result in a very clean design since you are separating data from presentation logic. Directly generating HTML output may turnout to be clumsy and hard to maintain.

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Ajith Kallambella M.
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java�2 Platform.
IBM Certified Developer - XML and Related Technologies, V1.

[Amit Agarwal]

Thanks for your help Ajith
Regards,
Amit