Help! JEditorPane flickers!

Question

Greetings,
I am working to display news from a web server in a JEditorPane.
I receive news from an outside source; I have an interface program to gather, parse and create a html
news file (index.html) with links to the actual news articles in it. I update this html file as soon as I receive new news articles.
Now, on the client side, I simply use the JEditorPane's setPage method to assign the index html page.
So far so good, however when the incoming news traffic is heavy, the html file is getting updated almost
every second and consequently the setPage method is getting called everys second. And needless to say
JEditorPane flickers like it has bird flu.
Is there a way to eliminate or at least reduce the flicker?
Cheers
Vic
//Simulating news a minute:
java.util.Timer timer = new java.util.Timer();
timer.schedule(new refreshNews(), 1 * 1000, 1 * 1000);
private class refreshNews extends TimerTask{
public refreshNews(){}
public void run(){
try{
pane.setPage(url);
}catch(Exception err){
err.printStackTrace();

Answer 1

Have you tried playing with JEditorPane's setDoubleBuffered( ) option?
This might help with the screen flicker.
Also, if you are running a separate timer thread, you should call the setPage( ) method on the Event Dispatcher thread, as Swing components are generally not thread-safe. ie.
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable( )
  public void run( )
    // setPage call here