Syntax Colouring

[Doctor Cactus]

Hi, I am writing a Java application. I have Java code in a jtext area and I want to know is there a way to colour the syntax like in JCreator? If so, could someone explain how?
Help is greatly appreciated.

[MK12]

First of all why would you want to code in a JTextArea? But anyway, to answer your question, you could, but you would need a JStyledPane or JTextPane to have multiple colours in one text box. I'm not sure how it would work, whether you would constantly be checking the entire string to find regular expressions which are java keywords, and then changing their colour when found, or maybe only do it when you click a button, or lose focus, or the typing pauses, etc.
Hope this helps.
-MK12

[Eranga]

I think you can use formatted fonts over the controls. Read about Font class.