JTextArea failing proper word wrap within JList

A JTextArea is inserted into a JScrollPane which is being rendered in a JList. Each of these JTextAreas render correctly, except the text within them does not word wrap around the whitespace.
Example, instead of seeing
|Testing 1 2 3    |
|testing.         |
------------------we are seeing:
|Testing 1 2 3 tes|
|ting.            |
------------------I'm aware the JTextArea component may not have a chance to validate properly, since it isn't visible until it is drawn into the JList. (Note: lineWrap on the JTextArea is set to true).
Is there anything I can do to correct this? Or am I wrong about the cause and there's another solution?

I think you're looking for
JTextArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
Normally I'd yell at you to read the API, but I
remember having a
hard time finding that one myself. :)Looking at the link camickr posted, I saw that in some example code and immediately checked it out. Tried it in my code, and it works.
I'm a big advocate on the API myself, shame on me for missing it! (Glad I'm not the only one tho)

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