Align text on two different lines using iText

Question

I'm creating a PDF using iText and want to vertically align text in two paragraphs. I'm using tab characters to try and align the "1" and the "2":

document.add(new Paragraph("Example"+"\t\t\t1"));
document.add(new Phrase("Hello World JAVA"+"\t\t\t2"));

Here is a screenshot of how the resulting PDF looks:

Can anyone suggest a better way to align text? Clearly tabs are not working how I expected. What I'm looking for is this:

Example           1
Hello World JAVA  2

Answer 1

I just discovered how to upvote comments, and I upvoted mkl's remark because the answer can indeed by found in http://www.manning.com/lowagie2/samplechapter2.pdf of which I'm the author.

Search the PDF for TAB CHUNKS . Note that the '\\t' character has no meaning in a PDF.