JavaHelp

JavaHelp system is a platform independent Java help system from Sun Microsystems that allows to integrate easily online help and documentation in Java applications. The help texts are HTML-based, while the other hand, the interface is XML-based.

Under the JavaHelp system refers not only to the specification of the programming (as Java Specification Request 97 ) and the reference implementation of this specification. The reference implementation is open source under the GNU General Public License 2.0. The programming interface is currently (2010) in version 2.0, the reference implementation version 2.0_05 before.

JavaHelp system itself is not an authoring tool, but there are a number of authoring tools that help information can produce in JavaHelp format.

Components and features

The JavaHelp system consists of the following parts:

Software maintainer Java Community Process Help authoring tool
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