How to send the jsp page with the data as attachment

Question

hi
my application is to display all the datas from the database.In the same page. i'm having a option to select mail address from the combo box and to send the page with the same format thru mail as an attachment .
<%      String from="192.168.10.1";
          String to=request.getParameter("to");
          System.err.println(to);
          String mailhost="localhost";
         System.err.println("hiiiiiiiii");
          try
               System.err.println("byeeeeeee");
               Properties prop=System.getProperties();
               prop.put("mail.smtp.host", mailhost);
               Session ss=Session.getInstance(prop,null);
            System.err.println("session props");
               Message message = new MimeMessage(ss);
               System.err.println("message");
               message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
               System.err.println("form not null");
               message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to));
               System.err.println("from and to r set");
               message.setSubject("Hello JavaMail Attachment");
          // Create the message part
               BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
          // Fill the message
               messageBodyPart.setText("have u got the attachement?");
               Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
               multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
          // Part two is attachment
               messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
               DataSource source = new FileDataSource("C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 5.0/webapps/MgmtTool/emsReport.jsp");
               messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
               messageBodyPart.setFileName("emsReport.jsp");
               multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
          // Put parts in message
               message.setContent(multipart);
               System.err.println("ready");
          // Send the message
               Transport.send(message);
               out.println("mail was sent successfully");
          catch(Exception e)
          {out.println(e);}
          %>
by using this code i 'm sending the emsreport page as attachment
i'm recieving only the tabular format but i cant able to get those data which are present on that page
i dont know wat to do???
kindly help me
thank u in advance

Answer 1

Some of the points might help you in thinking towards right direction, you might already know this but doesn't look like you are following in your code anyway.
1. The JSP that you are emailing is uncompiled source file. It need JVM environment to be able to run on.
2. The JSP is a view technology so try to separate the view logic from the business.
3. Try to put entire business logic in a Bean and use that in your JSP to start off with.
You may need to write the HttpServletResponse#content on to the Writer and then persist it on the filesystem. and then send that persisted file as an attachment.
Have a look at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/Writer.html
It provide different type of writer implementations.
HttpServletResponse#getWriter() provides PrintWriter instance.
Does it make sense?