The difference between document classes

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The difference between document classes

I read the javadocs, trying to grab Swing Document API, but I can not get him something reasonable, because so many classes: Document, StyledDocument, AbstractDocument, DefaultStyledDocument, PlainDocument, HTMLDocument, and someone mentioned DocumentFilter. This question is more general, so can someone give an overview of the differences between implementations and when for different interfaces and theses?

In my specific case, I want to create a data structure that will be:

hold only three lines of text. AND
Attributes must not be in a line or document. I will have several thousand of them in some other structure, therefore
service data is important.

Anything I can use for this, or is it better to extend something? If so, then what?

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takoi May 24, '10 at 14:28

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camickr 24 '10 14:47

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Robert Greiner · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-24T14:34:16+0000

All of these document classes have the same basic functionality, and each of them extends based on a niche that needs to be filled. Actually, this is just a question of what you need to do and use the appropriate type of document. For example, if I edit an HTML file, then I would use the HTMLDocument class.

I have included a brief description of each of the document classes that you requested in your question below.

Document