Printing from a servlet...

Hi, Does anyone know how to assign a printer to a PrinterJob without the dialog box ? Thanks for answering !

Thanks, I know, but in fact I have to print on 2 different printers, and so I can't do it like this, don't you know if an attribute exists to choose the printer, by its system name or by its IP address ?

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I ran into a similar situation recently and found one cheap (smells a bit like a hack) option to give the illusion of direct printing. If you embed Acrobat Reader as an object in your page then you can give it a width and height of 0, effectively hiding it. Then use the print() function to make it print from your own button in the page. Something like this:
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</OBJECT>
Then a button on the same page can make the pdf print.
<BUTTON name='printButton' onClick='MYPDF.print()'>Print</BUTTON>
Your confused users still have to choose that button however -- I don't think you can override the behaviour of the browser's print button.
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Sending an email from a servlet

Hi Guys,
Im trying to send an email from a servlet. I am using the following code:
IMPORTING LIBRARIES
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
//importing JDBC
import java.sql.*;
//email
import java.net.*;
import java.text.*; // Used for date formatting.
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public class Email3 extends HttpServlet
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     private DataOutputStream os = null;
     private DataInputStream is = null;
public void doPost (HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
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OUTPUT TAGS FOR WEBPAGE
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out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>FYP</title>");
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out.println("<body>");
out.println("<center>");
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                         os.writeBytes("RCPT Cc: <[email protected]>\r\n");
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                         //os.writeBytes("DATE: " + dFormat.format(dDate) + "\r\n");
                         os.writeBytes("From: Me <[email protected]>\r\n");
                         os.writeBytes("To: YOU <[email protected]>\r\n");
                         //Again if you want to send a CC then add this.
                         os.writeBytes("Cc: CCDUDE <[email protected]>\r\n");
                         //Here you can now add a BCC to the message as well
                         //os.writeBytes("RCPT Bcc: BCCDude<[email protected]>\r\n");
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                         os.writeBytes("\r\n.\r\n");
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                         { System.out.println("Cannot send email as an error occurred.");
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}//end class
it compiles fine, the connection was made ok but im not receiving the email. When the email is sent off the server reply does not seem to be Ok, as the print statement i tried there is not being executed. When i print the content of my responseline= variable before the if statement i get the following:
Connection was made. Socket is ready for use. responseline= 220 centaur.elec.qmul.ac.uk ESMTP Exim 3.16 #2 Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:54:34 +0000
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 250 is syntactically correct
responseline= 550 relaying to prohibited by administrator
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 503 No recipient(s).
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 500 Command unrecognized
responseline= 221 Closing connection. Good bye.
Can anyone help?
Is there an easier way to send an email from a servlet?
Thanks
tzaf

It's not a matter of "easier way" to send mail from servlet...you are missing a crucial element in your code: authorization to send mail. You need something like this (some of which you have already so note what is different):
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Including JSPFs from Java Servlets[Solved]

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After reading up a bit more on JSP Fragments I realized that they don't work from a Servlet environment. I should have researched a bit more before posting. By switching the files to JSPs, everything works perfectly.
Original:
Hopefully I can make this post make sense because there is very little code I can post in a public environment like this. Here goes nothing...
I have a Servlet, that includes a JSP file using RequestDispatcher.include(). This JSP works fine, and it gets compiled and shown properly. In this "wrapper" jsp, there are multiple calls to various methods in a class which do things such as printing, and including more jspfs, based on the data stored in an XML file.
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<%= "Content Coming from a JSPF" %>Here is the code that includes the JSPF:
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Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
-Nivek98
Message was edited by:
nivek98

Hi,
I dont think you can directly do this
tagLT %@ include file="/irj/go/km/docs/etc/public/mimes/PMIS/Static%20Contents/sample.html"% tagGT
check what happens if you directly paste this URL in browser.
Instead, you can create a KM Document iView from the HTML and paste the URL of the iView in the JSP. Or the best way is to create a page, assign the iViwe to the page and generate a short URL for the page and have this short URL in your include.
You can check this for short URLs
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/b3/7b8163404448e7aad7899c0b30313e/content.htm
Srini
Edited by: Sinivasan Rajamani on Feb 18, 2010 5:38 AM
Edited by: Sinivasan Rajamani on Feb 18, 2010 5:36 PM

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HI, I'm trying to use a EJB deployed in Glassfish from a servlet in the web server. I followed the steps in EJB_Faq of Glassfish site and they work
perfectly in Tomcat, but when I try it on Sun Web Server 7.0u1 it fails. On the web server log there is an exception when trying to create InitialContext, but I think
it is because of a warning that the server shows before the error. It doesn't load the javaee.jar file because is "Offending a class", the Servlet class.
Anyone has tried this, call an EJB in Glassfish from Sun Web Server? It works in Tomcat but the Web Server doesn't load the javaee.jar file and I think this is the reason that the call fails.

This is the code for the EJB:
package jpm.business;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
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public String getNombre(){
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public String toString(){
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props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.initial",
"com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs",
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props.setProperty("java.naming.factory.state",
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props.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost", "localhost");
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InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(props);
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out.print("3");
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(I just deleted some comments, but if there is an error, just complete the declarations)
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If you try in tomcat it works fine, the servlet receives the String form the EJB method. But when you try it in SJSWS the javaee.jar file its not loaded, fails on "validateJar(....)" and I think this is the reason the servlet doesn't find de EJB.
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I am newbie and dont know much about PHP coding.
Now i have a design for a Calender and I am using joomla for my website. In joomla i have a component names Eventlist.
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I have replied twice to your last posting, but have heard no response. Unless a solution can be presented quickly, I fell I must return the product. LPug and play was introduced with Windows 95 and this HP product has not lived up to that 20 year old technological standard. My previous replies are copied below.
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Re: MFP M127fn connected, test printing OK, can't print from applications
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‎01-31-2015 08:06 AM
Hello again!
I haven't heard a response to my most recent reply. Is there anything you can suggest before I give up and return this HP product to the store? I would like a quick resolution to this. As an update to my previous email (copied below), printing is no longer working through Adobe Reader.
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‎01-28-2015 01:08 PM
Hi,
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