<Swing Dev> New member needs to understand interacting with HTML in Swing

[Bob Futrelle]

My first post here.

I've used Swing for years, but my current goals call
for advanced development on my part.
I tokenize HTML article text from the biology research literature.
When a user clicks on or selects an item in a Swing GUI, I need to know
exactly which token was selected, since I keep all sorts of
information about the syntax and semantics every token, phrase, etc.

I am willing to use whatever HTML rendering is available
in Swing editor kits.  If the HTML markup strays outside
of Swing's capabilities, I'm willing to alter the HTML sources
as a workaround.

My previous experiments in this domain were frustrating
(too early a version of Java/Swing?).

I intend to restart some HTML experiments soon, but would welcome
any pointers you people might have.

As you can see, I'm not working at a developer's level,
involved with Swing implementation details, bugs, or fixes.
So this may not be the best list for me.
But considering the demands my system will make on Swing,
this may be the only place with participants that have the
needed level of expertise.

Though I recently retired, I'm working harder than ever
on my ambitious NLP text mining system.
I currently use Java 6 and Eclipse,
Mac OS 10.8.4, MacBook Pro.

Thanks in advance for any advice you might provide.

 - Bob Futrelle
   Emeritus professor of computer and info science
   Northeastern University
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