Printing a URL pdf file on Unix from a URL

Has anyone, managed to print a pdf file from a URL to UNIX via "lp" without first saving the file and then printing from the saved file via Runtime.getRuntime().exec().
Welcome suggestions on alternatives if not possible ?

One simple option which doesn't explicitly require a '.exec' would be to write a Java program which writes the PDF data from the URL to the console, and pipe the output to lp from the shell.
% java PDFURLWriter | lp
Good luck,
-Derek

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