Batch spell checking

Question

One of my program's tasks is to spell check a large number of unique strings per session, each string approx. a sentence long.
I chose to use the Jazzy API to accomplish this. Unfortunately I found that this method takes significantly longer. A process taking 5 seconds takes about 30 minutes using the spell check.
//Spell Check class that implements Jazzy, an open source API
import com.swabunga.spell.event.*;
import com.swabunga.spell.engine.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class SpellCheck implements SpellCheckListener
  private final String DICTIONARY_FILE = "Dictionary/english.0";
  private SpellChecker spellChecker;
  private ArrayList listOfMisspelledWords;
  public SpellCheck(String description)
    createDictionary();
    spellChecker.addSpellCheckListener(this);
    // Check Spelling
    StringWordTokenizer texTok =
       new StringWordTokenizer(description, new TeXWordFinder());
    populateListOfMisspelledWords(texTok);
    printWordsInMisspelledList();
  private void createDictionary()
    File dict = new File(DICTIONARY_FILE);
    try
      spellChecker = new SpellChecker(new SpellDictionaryHashMap(dict));
    catch (FileNotFoundException e)
      System.err.println("Dictionary File '" + dict + "' not found! Quitting. " + e);
      System.exit(1);
    catch (IOException ex)
      System.err.println("IOException occurred while trying to read the dictionary file: " + ex);
      System.exit(2);
  private void populateListOfMisspelledWords(StringWordTokenizer texTok)
    listOfMisspelledWords = new ArrayList();
    spellChecker.checkSpelling(texTok);
  private void printWordsInMisspelledList()
    Iterator it = listOfMisspelledWords.iterator();
    while (it.hasNext())
      System.out.println("Misspelled: " + it.next());
  public void spellingError(SpellCheckEvent event)
    event.ignoreWord(true);
    listOfMisspelledWords.add(event.getInvalidWord());
  public void check(String description){
    description = description;
    new SpellCheck(description);
}Is there a better way to perform this kind of spell check?
Thanks

Answer 1

Check Mail Preferences/Composing to see what is select with regard to Spell Check?
Ernie