Print Dialog in JSP

Question

Dear All,
This my problem. From JSP on clicking a Button , a Print Dialog Box has to appear. On Clicking Print it has to print a Dynamically Generated HTML Page. My Architecture Goes LIke this. Jsp --> Servlet --> In servlet a HTML is generated.
When Clicking the Button in JSP, The page should not refresh again. It has to straight away display the Print Dialog Button. I can do this for displaying open-dialog box. now the requirement is to display the print dialog box.
this is the snap shot code i used in servlet to open the html. But Now Requirement is to Open a Print Dialog Box Instead of Open Dialog Box.
Can any one help me out in this regard.
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,ServletException
PrintWriter pw = response.getWriter();
response.setContentType("text/html");
response.setHeader("Content-disposition","attachment;filename=report.html");
pw.print(generateHTMLContent());
pw.close();
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Answer 1

If you don't mind restricting yourself to the newer browsers you can use the LINK tag to designate the servlet as an alternate html page that will be printed when a JavaScript function does a document.print.
Here is a link that may help:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/link.html
I have used this for intranet applications where I knew that all users would be using IE 5+ but I don't have an example readily available.