Having text with different formats within one GUI component

I'm attempting to output text in a GUI but would like to change the formatting for certain areas of the text - i.e. most of it would be plain text but some areas of it are to be highlighted.

I was expecting to be able to do this using a simple jTextArea but as far as I can tell it only accepts one text format for the whole control...?

So my question is, is what I want to do possible and how do I go about it?

Thanks in advance!

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thoseion

[501 byte] By [thoseiona] at [2007-11-27 2:59:49]