What's a JTextController?

The API for javax.swing.text.TextAction says:

This is determined by being used in conjunction with a JTextController which arranges to share that information with a TextAction.

I've searched src.zip and rt.jar and can't locate JTextController. Does anyone know where this came from, or is it just a documentation bug?

Only reasonable reference I found was here http://www2.htw-dresden.de/~beck/JAVA11/SWING/api/com.sun.java.swing.text.DefaultTextController.html
Notice the JAVA11 in the URL. Could be 1.1 or 11. I doubt if its 1.1 because of the JTextController

It could well be Java 1.1, since Swing used to work with Java 1.1 (although it was shipped separately). Possibly a class that was part of very early Swing versions, but was then removed and nobody ever bothered to update the javadocs.

Ulf Dittmer wrote:It could well be Java 1.1, since Swing used to work with Java 1.1 (although it was shipped separately). Possibly a class that was part of very early Swing versions, but was then removed and nobody ever bothered to update the javadocs.

I was not aware of this. I took it that Swing was since 1.2

You're young, my friend :-)

Yup. I still feel 25!

Thanks, Maneesh and Ulf. I guess it might have been part of Swing before Swing was made a part of core.

I've filed a documentation bug report and have received this auto-response.

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Two of those links take you to a login page which hangs forever after submitting, and the third redirects to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html. The fourth just doesn't exist.

Goes to show just how much Oracle is committed to the Java community

It may take a day or two before your bug shows up in this external database.

That's a hoot, given that it may take 5 years or more for acknowledged bugs to get fixed.