A version of Notepad in Java using Swing. It should have the same commands as Notepad, excluding the printer command. The Help option should be present, but it only needs to explain the commands and show the names of the authors.

You'll need to learn how to use Swing. The online Java™ Tutorial trail, which is at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ , includes a section on Swing and the Java Foundation Classes; you'll find it at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/.