The UI provides all the usual features, add (to user dictionary), change, change all, ignore, ignore all, undo, and smart suggestions. The user dictionary is stored on the server and can be unique per user, or shared amongst groups. The spell checker UI features a preview pane to interactively highlight spelling and duplication errors (with no post back), and accepts manual corrections.

RapidSpell Web provides a spelling component to add spell check functionality to your web applications, by simply adding the JSP Tag to a jsp page - Servlets are also supported with included JavaBeans. There are no programming skills required to use RapidSpell Web, making it accessible to JSP page designers aswell as Java programmers.

It interactively checks any HTML text box component such as <textarea> and <input type='text'> and 3rd Party text components such as HtmlArea and FCKEditor.

The RapidSpellWInline control provides Windows style in-text-box highlighting, with editable text box support for modern browsers and static 'overlay' support for older browsers.

The RapidSpellWebLauncher control provides traditional dialog (modal/non-modal) spell checking.

Supports customizable main dictionaries (through Dict Manager tool) and user dictionaries (either one dictionary for all users or separate user dictionaries) located on the server.

The open API allows customizations to be made to behavior, eg;

• User dictionary behavior - eg. change the way the user dictionary is persisted (databases)
• Parser behavior - eg. use UI as an offensive language checker
• Customizable lookup/suggestions methods

The included non GUI component provides core spell checker functionality through the RapidSpellChecker class, which means it is suitable for server applications as well as any console application. It has been clocked at 50,000 words/sec on a standard 1GHz PC (100k+ on average server hardware).

Free minor version updates (eg. 2.8 to 2.9) are included with a purchased license, as is email technical support.

RapidSpell Web Java complies with Section 508 and W3C AA. Please view the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) which outlines the specific accessibility-related features.

RapidSpell Web works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera and Safari. It uses only HTML and Javascript, this means there are no special requirements, plugins, or long downloads, as with some spell check server components.

It is easy to use RapidSpell Web as a Tag in a jsp page or programmatically in inline-code/servlets, either way full customisation of style, layout and properties is possible. Using a simple HTML template mechanism it is also possible to layout the spell checker as you wish, including branding.

All dictionaries (main and user's) are stored on the server, yet the user's spell checking experience is not hampered by any post-backs to the server, because there are none. User dictionaries can be stored on a database (examples provided).

RapidSpell Web provides two distinct spell checker controls;
RapidSpellWebLauncher functions in one of two modes, 'popup' - which open's a small console window with the spell checker in it or in 'separate' - which loads the spell checker in the main window on a separate page, there are no restrictions with either of these modes.
RapidSpellWInline works using AJAX to highlight errors inside the text box.

Two powerful suggestions engines can be used to find good suggestions for words, including an exclusive 'sounds-like' algorithm.

Works without session variables, making it possible to use RapidSpell Web with server clusters/farms. The single request architecture keeps server load down, and is possible through our high performance suggestions algorithm.

RapidSpell Web was designed to JDK 1.2.2+ specification and supports legacy browsers, Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6+, Firefox 1, Opera, and Safari on the PC and Mac.

RapidSpell Web is expected to work with all J2EE servers, it has been tested in, and works correctly with;

• BEA WebLogic Server
• IBM WebSphere
• Sun ONE Application Server
• Jakarta Tomcat