After a little more Google-Foo, I have found the answer:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/addingfonts.html
In a nutshell:
Physical font files can be installed in either an operating system's standard location for fonts or in the jre/lib/fonts library of the
Java 2 SDK (or in the lib/fonts directory of the Java 2 Runtime Environment). Fonts in either the operating system's standard location or in the lib/font directory will be on the Java runtime's "font path" and can be used by applications and
applets.
So, to get this, I need to use FontPath (
http://www.davisor.com/offisor-docs/api/com/davisor/font/FontPath.html).
I hope this helps others.