What is best control in Java for simple editor

I need to implement light editor ( recognize part of key words, syntax highli开发者_JAVA百科ght and suggest all of word in dropdown list if user type part with same prefix). What is best control in Java for this task ?

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You can go through the Java Tutorial - Using Text Components along with the examples page.

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You could use JEditTextArea as a start point.

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I recommend to reuse the editor of NetBeans or Eclipse.

http://wiki.netbeans.org/How_to_create_support_for_a_new_language

http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-code-completion.html

http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html