Hi, we have a student at the DHBW-Karlsruhe, working on a replacement of the JavaHelp viewer.
https://github.com/MobMonRob/JavaHelpStudien My main motivation to start this project are my own netbeans-platform applications where we want to have offline-available help-pages which are collected automatically from a big set of modules. I think the module should also be able to be added to the netbeans IDE itself to show the ide help pages. What is the status of the ide help content? I think nobody has worked on updating the IDE helps-sets? Our student project will be finished end of month and in October we can start a follow up project for completing missing parts and refinements. So it is good to know, if there is interest in a modern replacement of java- help (for the ide or netbeans platform based applications) or making re- available the´ original implementation. best regards Oliver > On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 14:51, Marco Peters > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I know the versions are quite old. It's a little embarrassing. > > Unfortunately, we didn't have the chance to update earlier in our ESA > > SNAP project. We were still using Java 1.8 too. So, we now want to update > > step by step and not with one giant leap to the latest versions. We try > > to get run 11.3 of NetBeans Platform with JDK11. > > Why 11.3 exactly? Personally, while I understand the desire to not > make a giant leap, I think you're probably better jumping straight to > NetBeans 17 with JDK 11 here. > > > Now my problem. > > After updating the Java help is not working anymore. The default menu > > entry Help/Help Contents is not added to the menu. And when invoking the > > help manually nothing happens. Debugging revealed that in > > HelpCtx.display() the call to > > Lookup.getDefault().lookupAll(Displayer.class) to not return an > > implementation. > Well, we haven't used JavaHelp in the IDE since moving to Apache > (license issues) and I'm not sure how well tested adding JavaHelp to > the platform is?! Certainly, some default help actions have changed > in light of that. > > There's a curious question about whether we want to bring JavaHelp > back? In theory, the license issue should now be resolvable. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
