selection in jtextfield

is there a way to select a portion of the text whilst still retaining caret position?
[92 byte] By [javabingea] at [2007-10-3 3:24:10]
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1. getCaretPosition()2. setCaretPosition(..)3. moveCaretPosition(1)
Michael_Dunna at 2007-7-14 21:16:51 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Core GUI APIs...