Report printing in java

[S Chandra Mohan]

Hello,
I am working in a corporte.
We generate online reports. At present we have been writing them
using servlets. But we r facing certain printer related problems.
How can i generate a Txt file from a servlet and put it across
the web ?
We used crystal report tool but its also giving some problem
pls help

[Frank Daly]

Hi
You could use XML, XSL, Cocoon and your choice of servlet container. I generate an XML file from a database query and associate that file with an XSL file. I then use Cocoon to render the XML file to pdf.
You can look up Cocoon at XML.apache.org/cocoon.
Frank

[Gerry Giese]

You could set your output (content?) type to "text/plain" or just wrap your output in the HTML between PRE tags (PREformatted text).
Alternately, I would suggest having the reports generate as .DOC or .PDF from Crystal, if that's an option. If you look throug a JDJ or JavaPro issue you can find other Java-only reporting engines that to HTML/DOC/PDF/Excel/Other.