Can a view be sent via email?

[2devnull]

I have a view that is shown to the user done in Velocity. Is there any way in Spring to send this exact view via email at the same time in the same format.

[Rod Johnson]

You might be able to override VelocityView's mergeTemplate() method to merge the template to a separate stream.

[2devnull]

Thanks Rod,
I had done just that and it all works now. Thanks for the suggestion. For the benefit of others, here is the actual code:

sw is a StringWriter.

try {

					mailSender.send(new MimeMessagePreparator() {
						public void prepare(MimeMessage mimeMessage) throws MessagingException {
							MimeMessageHelper message = new MimeMessageHelper(mimeMessage, true, "UTF-8");
							message.setFrom(from);
							if (!to.equals("") && StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(to).length > 0)
								message.setTo(StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(to));
							if (!cc.equals("") && StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(cc).length > 0)
								message.setCc(StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(cc));
							if (!bcc.equals("") && StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(bcc).length > 0)
								message.setBcc(StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(bcc));
							message.setSubject(subject + " - " + request.getServerName()+" ("+request.getRemoteAddr()+")");
							
							String mailBody = sw.toString();
							try {
								mailBody = VelocityEngineUtils.mergeTemplateIntoString(velocityEngine, "/WEB-INF/velocity/en_EN/errorview.vm", "UTF-8", myModel);
							} catch (VelocityException ve) {
								logger.error("Exception in VelocityEngineUtils - mail not sent");
							}
			
							message.setText(mailBody, true);
							logger.error("Sent exception email to: "+to+" (cc: "+cc+")");
							
						}
					});
				} catch (Exception e) {
					logger.error("Exception occured sending exception email - " + e.getMessage());
				}

return new ModelAndView("errorview", "model", myModel);

[dwsmith75]

How would one go about doing this with Tiles JSTL/JSP views?