Recommendation on spell checkers

as the subject line suggests i am looking for recommendations on spell checking engines for Java by anyone who could share their experiences with me. I did a search on google for this and came up with 70,000 odd hits. a search on the fourms seems to generate entries for people who are mucking about writing their own spell checkers as homework or for fun but neither really helps me.
so i am hoping that someone might be able to say about the different options available online "that's good" or "i never heard about that one" or even the "yikes! don't touch that piece of junk"
the first few i found were.
http://www.jspell.com/jspell.html
http://www.wintertree-software.com/dev/ssce/javasdk.html
http://xde.net/xq/tool.spellchecker/qx/index.htm
but feel free to tell me about whatever.
other than just how much you liked or disliked a particular product i am interested in knowing if and how easy or difficult it is to include my own specialized "dictionaries" of words with these products. i am not so interested in switching languages but in having dictionaries that include the terminology of the particular demographic that my application is built for.

I'm pretty pleased with the one from Keyoti
http://www.keyoti.com/products/rapidspell/
They do a JSP one too, but I have only tried the
evaluation of that. The tech support was quick, no
complaints!
I guess it depends on exactly what ur looking for??
thanks for the feedback. i am not looking for JSP but I just wanted to hear someone say something positive about any of these. as i stated previously the ability to alter the "dictionary" of words is important to me so i'm glad to see it in the component.

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