I want to show a generated Report as an embedded print-preview in a swing
application. I know, that the Report Designer (RD) in eclipse uses the
Report Viewer(RV) to show a result. But as far a i know the RV is a WebApp
which runs in a Tomcat App Server so this wouldn't work in a desktop
environment without any server. Further i'm sticked to swing so i can't
use swt to visualize RV. This solution also wouldn't be very embedded by
the way.
What i thought about as kind of a workaround is to produce html or pdf and
show this in swing using some common api's. The disadvantage is that i
have propably high costs to adapt the presentation that it looks and
operates like a print preview.
I would feel a litle bit queasy to walk this way just to show a paginated
preview of the report where the user has a TOC and print or export
features in a swing application. Am I the only one with such a request?