Rich Web-editor

 
One of our clients is looking for a super feature-rich editor to be built as
a web application.

While they already have suport for features like formatting - font, size,
color, etc. they now want to move a notch up. They want the application
(currently in JSP/Servlets) to be able to support features like in MS
Wordpad. Specifically,  support for copy/paste of text AND images from other
applications.

So, if the user copies text from a word, excel (or any other kind, like PDF,
etc), and paste it into this web-interface, it needs to retain all the
formatting!

(You can try it with WordPad for a better idea of what we are looking for).

Is this at all possible? If so, are there are free or commercial
APIs/components that we can look into?

So far, assuming that plain JSP will not be able to provide such features,
we are also looking at Applet as an alternative.

Any pointers appreciated,

Thanks & Rgds,

- Saurabh Bobde 
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