[jira] [Commented] (NETBEANS-3) javahelp

["Hervé Girod (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Hervé Girod commented on NETBEANS-3:
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Maybe it can be a nay interest to you (for the future NB versions): I created a sourceforge project to show a Help system (also with context-sensitive capabilities) in a Swing app. It also generates the Help articles themselves. I did this because initially I wanted to create a portable wiki as a web site to be able to deploy it anywhere I wanted, and later to replace JavaHelp which I always found not very easy to setup.

The code of the swing library uses a BSD license. The project is here: [link sourceforge.net/projects/docjgenerator|https://sourceforge.net/projects/docjgenerator/].


> javahelp
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>                 Key: NETBEANS-3
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3
>             Project: NetBeans
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Emilian Bold
>            Assignee: Jan Lahoda
>              Labels: cleanup
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> javahelp seems to be under GNU GPL 2 with CPE and we do use it: http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/file/5fd841261bf9/javahelp/external/jhall-2.0_05-license.txt
> We should either find a drop-in replacement for javahelp or move the help online and open a system browser for each help button click.
> This will break the stable help API used by plugins and Platform apps so we must provide some migration path for those too.
> An idea would be to allow Platform apps to include javahelp themselves instead of relying on it being present in the Platform.



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