Print a file on the server on a local printer

From:

priyadar@gmail.com

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

13 Oct 2006 06:57:12 -0700

Message-ID:

<1160747831.978044.198930@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Hi all

I have a very wierd situation - My intranet based application connects
to a external application via internet and gets a file as a response -
which it then sucessfully stores on the server. However I need to print
this file on a local thermal printer. My problem is that while the file
is saved on the server - it wont get downloaded to my local machine OR
PRINT command to print the server file wont work coz the server doesnt
know abt the printer. I tried copying the file by opening a
URLConnection to the server and then trying to copy - but that wont
work either. Any ideas abt how I may get this to work.
The code I am using to copy is

{
URL url = new URL(serverFileName);
      File file = new File( localFileName );
      if ( !file.exists() )
      {
              boolean a = file.createNewFile();
             if (a) {logger.info("file creation sucessful");}
       }

       URLConnection urlC = url.openConnection();
       InputStream is = url.openStream();
       System.out.flush();

       FileOutputStream fos=null;
       fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
       int oneChar, count=0;
       while ((oneChar=is.read()) != -1)
       {
          fos.write(oneChar);
          count++;
       }
       is.close();

       fos.close();
       logger.info(count + " byte(s) copied");

Any help would be highly appreciated

- PD