Moving the Focus with the TAB key in a JTextArea Component

Dear Friends,
I have exhausted all options of moving focus from JTextArea to next component. I have also tried all suggestions available in this forum. But i'm not able to solve my problem. Can any one help me.
Thanx in advance.

I had the same problem before. Here is what i did.
JTextArea txtArea = new JTextArea(2,15);
Set forwardTraversalKeys = new HashSet();
forwardTraversalKeys.add(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_TAB, 0));
txtArea.setFocusTraversalKeys(KeyboardFocusManager.FORWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS,forwardTraversalKeys);
Set backwardTraversalKeys = new HashSet();
backwardTraversalKeys.add(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_TAB, InputEvent.SHIFT_MASK));
txtArea.setFocusTraversalKeys( KeyboardFocusManager.BACKWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, backwardTraversalKeys);
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(
     txtArea,
        JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS,
        JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
// the scrollbar of the JScrollPane is focusable that's why it requires
// another TAB key to transfer the focus.
scrollPane.getVerticalScrollBar().setFocusable(false);

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