I'm writing a web application using the Tomcat 4.1.18 Servlet
Container and, therefore, JSP pages. On the HTML forms I've created, I
need a great component that provides WYSIWYG (rich-text) formatting
capabilities. This component will replace the standard TEXTAREA
element.

I've searched the best I can, and found a couple excellent tools that
run in PHP, but not JSP. These are wysiwygpro.com and devedit.com.

1) Can I get these PHP solutions to work simultaneously with my JSP
pages?

2) What other alternatives do I have?

The editor component should work on the latest browsers available on
Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Request for Question Clarification by rhansenne-ga on 23 Aug 2003 15:57 PDT

Hi rob1026-ga,

Please take a look at:

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/index.html

This editor is written completely in client-side javascript and is
therefore independant of the back-end scripting language. I've used it
successfully in several JSP/servlet based web projects. Best of all,
it's completely free and very easy to use (simply include the js files
and replace the text area with a html area)!

Is this what you're looking for?

Sincerely,

rhansenne-ga.

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Clarification of Question by rob1026-ga on 31 Aug 2003 07:39 PDT

The htmlArea tool at www.interactivetools.com looks good. Version 3,
which is in beta, supposedly works on any platform, which is what I
need. I will download it and take a look. Have you used version 3
successfully, or does it still have a ways to go? Thanks!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dreaming/

If you want to support users of Netscape, Mozilla, and the rest of the
Gecko browser family, you might check out Midas:

http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/

You could detect the browser and serve up htmlarea to an IE user and
Midas to a Netscape, etc. user.