Cursor in JTextPane

hai
i have a JTextPane. A JButton is inserted in the JTextPane using insertComponent() method.
i want the cursor to be changed to HAND_CURSOR when it is over the button.
i added a mouselistener to the button. In the listener i implemented the method mouseEntered(). In this method i used setCursor() to set the cursor but the cursor is not getting changed. someboby pl help
And is there is way of inserting an URL in JTextPane??
Thanks in anticipation
bye

Just set the button's cursor using the setCursor() method:
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