All,
I am missing something with regard to document filtering. I have
successfully built this app where the text clears (actually gets
replaced with "") everytime a keystoke is entered into my textField.
However, before the replacement with ("") I would like to somehow save
the text that is coming in to the textField (in a String variable
perhaps?).
Anyhow, your expertise would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,
Chris

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument;
import javax.swing.text.AttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.DocumentFilter;

public class textAreaExample {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
     clear();

 }
     public static void clear() {
 final JTextField field = new JTextField(30);

   ((AbstractDocument) (field.getDocument())).setDocumentFilter(new
DocumentFilter()
   {

     public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length,
String string, AttributeSet attr)
         throws BadLocationException {
       fb.replace(offset, length, "", attr);

     }

   });

   JFrame frame = new JFrame("ALiiS");
   frame.getContentPane().add(field);
   frame.pack();
   frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
   frame.setVisible(true);

 }
}