What is a Flowable?
Flowable is an interface defined by Wildcrest Associates that appears in the package com.wildcrest.j2printerworks. Flowable defines a print operation that can be advanced by specified rectangular amounts through a given piece of content such as a JTextPane or a JTable, starting at the beginning and continuing in print order to the end. Flowable can be used to paginate a given piece of content starting and ending in the middle of any page, and a sequence of Flowables can be printed back-to-back over a series of pages. The J2PrinterWorks abstract class J2Pageable can take any individual Flowable and create a Pageable from it. For example, J2TextPrinter subclasses J2Pageable and implements the Flowable methods for any JTextPane and, as a result, J2Pageable implements the corresponding Pageable methods using these Flowable methods. In addition, the container class J2FlowPrinter can take any sequence of Flowables and create an overall Pageable as well as single Flowable from them.
