redirect output to printer

[Richard Green]

Ok. I have a program that prints "Hello World" in java. I want to redirect the output to my printer (and not to the console). How do I do that?

[Richard Green]

BTW, just to give you a background of the problem

My friend has a program written in FoxPro (remember?) that takes few inputs from the user, performs some calculations and formatting and prints a nice label on the invoice sheet (prints the calculated variables at a predefined x-y pos.)

something like:

                           <<INVOICE NUMBER>>
 

                           <<NAME>>      
 
<<ADDRESS>>
                     <<VALUE1>>

I am trying to do the same using Java. Since my friend lives in a different geographical location and I dont know the exact x-y positions of where to print the variables, I took the following approach:

import bsh.Interpreter;
public class blah{ 
    public blah(){
      Interpreter i = new Interpreter();
      .....  
      getInputFromUser();
      .....
      performCalculationsAndFormatting(); 
      i.set("name",name);
      i.set("invoiceNumber",invoiceNumber);
      i.set("address",address);
      i.source("format.bsh");
    }
}

where format.bsh contains something like

System.out.println("                      "+name);
System.out.println("          "+address);
.....

I took this approach because I thought this would give my friend a good control over the format of the output variables (He can adjust them according to his needs).

Does this sound like a good approach?
[ January 30, 2007: Message edited by: Richard Green ]

[Richard Green]

or do you think Apache Velocity is a better fit (than BSH) for my requirements ?

or am i out of my mind and thinking in the wrong direction...

[Richard Green]

any one?