A rather rudimentary way, but it should probably look something like:

String message;
...

public String encodeMessage(String message){
char[] encoded = message.getChars();
for(int i = 0; i<encoded.length; i++){
switch(encoded[i]){
case('a'): encoded[i] = 'f'; break;
case('b'): encoded[i] = 'x'; break;
....
}
}
return new String(encoded);

}




Hope this helps.

Dustin