html <textarea> problem

[anthrax]

<textarea wrap="virtual" name="activity_description" rows="7" cols="70"></textarea>

for example I entered this message in my text area:

"The quick.

Brown fox.
jump"

then i saved it to my database.. when i query and display it back the result would look like this:

"The quick. Brown fox. jump"

it doesn't retain the way the user entered the message, how do i fix this?
my PostgreSQL db column is set to recieve "character varying" and i do "INSERT INTO activity_info (activity_description)
VALUES (?);
stmt.setString(1, bean.getActivity_description());

i'm using java program so this problem is related to java :) and i think it's how my java program handles the message that needs to be fixed.

[jogep]

The text in your textarea are plain text and no html, so you must convert linebreaks.

As example :
"\n" -> "<br/>"

Bye

Johannes