CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE rtf
IS
        PROCEDURE convertToText ( rtf_in IN VARCHAR2, plain_text OUT VARCHAR2 )
        IS
                language java
                name 'rtf.convertToText( java.lang.String, java.lang.String[] )';

        FUNCTION to_text ( rtf_in IN VARCHAR2 )
        RETURN VARCHAR2
        IS
                language java
                name 'rtf.to_text( java.lang.String ) return java.lang.String';

END rtf;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE AND COMPILE JAVA SOURCE NAMED "rtf"
AS
        import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
        import javax.swing.text.Document;
        import javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit;
        import java.io.*;

        public class rtf extends Object
        {
                public static void convertToText( java.lang.String p_in, java.lang.String[] p_out )
                throws IOException, BadLocationException
                {
                        // test for null inputs to avoid java.lang.NullPointerException when input is null
                        if ( p_in != null )
                        { RTFEditorKit kit = new RTFEditorKit();
                                Document doc = kit.createDefaultDocument();
                                kit.read(new StringReader(p_in), doc, 0);
                                p_out[0] = doc.getText(0, doc.getLength());
                        }
                        else p_out[0] = null;
                }

                public static String to_text(String p_in)
                throws IOException, BadLocationException
                {
                        // test for null inputs to avoid java.lang.NullPointerException when input is null
                        if (p_in != null)
                        { RTFEditorKit kit = new RTFEditorKit();
                                Document doc = kit.createDefaultDocument();
                                kit.read(new StringReader(p_in), doc, 0);
                                return doc.getText(0, doc.getLength());
                        }
                        else return null;
                }
        }
/