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Re: recommendations of sources for creating online help
Subject:Re: recommendations of sources for creating online help From:"Mike Frasciello" <MJFrasci -at- uc -dot- syr -dot- edu> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:42:34 -0500
If the app is being developed in Java, why not go with JavaHelp? If
you've developed HTML Help, you can develop a JavaHelp system - either
natively or with a tool like HelpBreeze or RoboHelp (although they tend
to put a lot of proprietary garbage in).
Check out http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/. JavaHelp comes as
part of the JDK, so you're development team probably has the indexer,
viewer, and other tools aleady available. I've had excellent results
with JavaHelp. Much "lighter" than HTML help and WinHelp. JavaHelp it
deployed in a .jar file (basically a .zip file) rather than .chm or .hlp
file, which can both be extremely fat.
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