The TextBuffer package assists in the manipulation of in-memory text content, whether it is read-only text, or read-write text. All text data is stored in normal Java Unicode format as a sequence of char's.

Text buffers can be accessed through two interfaces:

To create a TextBuffer instance or ReadTextBuffer, use the TextBufferFactory factory class. For more details about how to use this package, please refer to the JavaDoc for these two interfaces.