Best way of printing simple reports in java

Question

I have developed a Java application and now i want to give some simple printing support. Something like printing invoices , some reports etc. Right now I'm creating that stuff in html, showing it on JEditorPane. but html support is quite poor and I'm really fade up of that thing. Is there any better way of doing such thing? Any better browser component, or better tool to create such simple reports? (JDK 1.6)

Answer 1

I love JasperReports for that. In combination with iReport (a GUI for creating the reports) is the best I could find for free in Java to do reporting.

You can also generate PDFs files with iText for printing. Although I think it will be easier to use iReports.

Answer 2

JasperReports is a pretty nice reporting tool for Java. It could be a bit heavy weight for what you want.