I was noticing recently on the slack channel a comment about the JavaHelp
functionality

As I understand things, due to GPL related licensing the JavaHelp
functionality basically is no longer available (i.e. jhall and jsearch are
part of JavaHelp no longer part of NetBeans.").

I found a few related tickets (see below)...assume this may basically be
part of either NETBEANS-3 javahelp or NETBEANS-656 Help is Broken (Offline
and On-line) to address but figured I would raise the quest

Any plans for a replacement for this>

Eric Bresie
[email protected]

Reference:

   1. (Open) NETBEANS-3 javahelp
      - Believe this may be the longer term overarching ticket for javahelp
   2. (Open) NETBEANS-656 Help is Broken (Offline and On-line)
      - This seems to be one that may be worth working some of this against
      - There was an update as part of this to correct URL to online
      version but more work for Offline suspect is needed
   3. (Closed) NETBEANS-285 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
   javax.help.search.SearchEngine
   - Believe this was an issue when trying Ctrl+I trigger an issue
   4. (Closed) NETBEANS-462Java Help class cannot be found
      - Believe this was closed as not valid
      - It did include some additional build dependency updates in the
      comments though
   5. (Closed) NETBEANS-492 Quick Search for help throws
   java.lang.ClassNotFoundException
      - Believe this was an issue with help searching which may have
      basically been disabled
   6. (Closed) NETBEANS-1818 Cleanup license files
   - This seemed to be some licensing cleanup which has reference to
      JavaHelp items

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