I'm looking for something like a JTextField class functionality

I'm looking for something like a JTextField class functionality where an instantiated object has a specific font type and the text is a mixture of bold, italics and plain. I want to be able to ask the JTextField type object for its XML (or otherwise) text representation and I want the object to display the text with all of the appropriate font and style attributes. I'm looking at the problem but I surely would like advice.