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Damian Conway writes quite extensively about generating reports using Perl 6 in perl.com: Exegesis 7 [Feb. 27, 2004].

I really would like to generate reports like the following in java, too:

print form
        :interleave, <<EOFORMAT,
            Name:             Biography:
              {[[[[[[[[[[[[}    {[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[}
                                {VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}
            Status:             {VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}
              {[[[[[[[[[[[[}    {VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}
                                {VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}
            Comments:           {VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}
              {[[[[[[[[[[[}     {VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}
            EOFORMAT
        $name,
        $biography,
        $status,
        $comments;

And get:

Name:             Biography:
      William           William Shakespeare was born on
      Shakespeare       April 23, 1564 in Strathford-upon-
                        Avon, England; he was third of
    Status:             eight children from Father John
      Deceased (1564    Shakespeare and Mother Mary Arden.
      -1616)            Shakespeare began his education at
                        the age of seven when he probably
    Comments:           attended the Strathford grammar
      Theories          school. The school provided
      abound as to      Shakespeare with his formal
      the true          education. The students chiefly
      author of his     studied Latin rhetoric, logic, and
      plays. The        literature. His knowledge and
      prime             imagination may have come from his
      alternative       reading of ancient authors and
      candidates        poetry. In November 1582,
      being Sir         Shakespeare received a license to
      Francis           marry Anne Hathaway. At the time of
      Bacon,            their marriage, Shakespeare was 18
      Christopher       years old and Anne was 26. They had
      Marlowe, or       three children, the oldest Susanna,
      Edward de         and twins- a boy, Hamneth, and a
      Vere              girl, Judith. Before his death on
                        April 23 1616, William Shakespeare
                        had written thirty-seven plays. He
                        is generally considered the greatest
                        playwright the world has ever known
                        and has always been the world's most
                        popular author.

(These examples are stolen quoted from the article referenced above.)