Hi Josh!
I shall assume that you plan to have a button in your editor that says "compile" or somthin like that.. ok? =)
you might wish to check out these few things:
1. the compile syntax (and how to dynamically change it, eg. modifying the jdk path, classpath, sourcepath and output path, etc)
2. how to launch the compile command that you have prepared in step 1.
- you can use this:
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(..your compile string..);
3. how to display the compilation results
- you might wish to add another JTextArea for this
hope this gives you some leads,
shahid