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Subject:RE: JavaHelp: real world deployment? From:"David Knopf" <david -at- knopf -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 14 Aug 2001 07:41:14 -0700
mclm -at- ncode -dot- co -dot- uk wrote:
| Anyone out there deploying JavaHelp for cross-platform help? WinNT + all
| Unix flavours (Solaris, IBM, SGI, HP, Linux)?
| I'd like to hear experiences from people who are shipping
| JavaHelp in "real
| world" production software.
Yes, we've deployed JavaHelp systems for several production Java
applications.
| I looked at JavaHelp about 18 months ago. It worked OK at a basic
| level but
| was slow to start up and authoring tools were non-existent. Has anything
| changed in this respect?
Slow to start up? Most of the start-up time is load time for the JRE. When
JavaHelp is used to provide online Help for a Java application, the JRE is
already loaded, and so this is a non-issue. For standalone JavaHelp systems,
though, yes, the load time is substantially greater than for other Help
formats.
| I suspect that JavaHelp (or Oracle Help for Java) may be worth considering
| for pure Java apps. But good old HTML may be an easier cross-platform
| alternative in most cases.
JavaHelp 1.x was designed for providing online Help for Java applications.
It was not designed as a general purpose distribution format for online
information. Some of that will be changing with JH 2.0. Currently, though,
JavaHelp is an appropriate technology for Java applications (especially but
not only pure Java applications), but browser-based Help may be a better
solution if you are not providing Help for a Java application.
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