Does anyone know how microsoft have put in the fancy text editing tool
into Hotmail?  The one so that you can create lists and embolden text
as if it were MS Word but then translates it into some level of HTML or
RTF for representation on screen and then in the email itsefl too?

Hello everyone.  This seems really simple, but the solutions I've read
haven't worked.  I'm getting the error "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
com.extendedsystems.jdbc.advantage.ADSDriver" when I try to connect to the
ADS (7.1 from a FreeBSD machine running Tomcat5.0.28, JDK1.3 ...

Does Java have an equivalent of the rather handy PHP function nl2br
which replaces new lines with <br /> for nice use in websites?
I am sure it is nice and easy to just replace all of the \n or \r\n 's
with the <BR /> but with it being such a useful PHP thing I thought