enabling smarter text wrapping in a JTextArea

Question

The Context

At the moment, I have a JTextArea that has been created like so:

JTextArea descArea = new JTextArea();
descArea.setFont(style.getFont());
descArea.setLineWrap(true);
descArea.setName("descArea");
descArea.setToolTipText(resourceMap.getString("descArea.toolTipText"));
descArea.setText(model.getName());
JScrollPane descPane = new JScrollPane(descArea,
            JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
            JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);

When a user types something into the field, it does indeed wrap (as per descArea.setLineWrap(true)), but does it a little clumsily by breaking words like the following example:

The users of our software are expecting the wrapping to be a little more clever and automatically generate something more like:

With the general idea being that when they type the last 'th' it all moves down to the second line along with the insertion point as they type (in a way similar to just about every other text editor).

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The Question

My initial thought had been to implement this sort of wrapping manually using a Key Listener, but I was wondering if there is a better approach/different component that could achieve this functionality more easily?

Answer 1

It is already implemented.

  textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);