In all my travels across the world wide web, I have not encountered an elegant solution to an issue that I would have thought been a simple one. How can I embed a HTML ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG) editor into a Java application. All the nice free HTML WYSIWYG editors, tend to use javascript and load from a webpage, such as TinyMCE and FCKEditor. This works fine for the J2EE world but application developers are left stranded. So after some research I decided that I would try using the SWT Browser Widget to render a TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor.

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