There a t least five request for Enhancement s (RFE) in the JavaSoft bug database related to Mouse Wheel support in Java. One of the RFE s BugID #4202656 has 281 votes from developers requesting Sun for a fix. Sun has finally agreed to support this feature in JDK 1.4 codenamed Merlin accroding to the BugID #4289845 in its bug database.