While attempting to understand the Netbeans IDE/Platform architecture, I thought the community-UML contrib would help but recall recent attempts involved awaiting on donation 6 and addressing dependencies on JavaHelp which seems to be deprecated and/or no longer in widespread use in Netbeans.
Looking through some old threads (1) and JIRA tickets, I’ve found the general consensus seems to be JavaHelp is basically deprecated and/or no longer activity being utilized. I’ve seen a few threads which seems to indicate the way forward is to have the help materials to be translated into some common format (i.e. either html, asciidoc, docwiki) and then render either in a internal/external web view or have some new component to render the context as applicable. To minimize the work on updating help, I believe the hope was these would be basically backwards compatible to reduce the need for too much translation. So all that said, is anyone actively developing an Alternative Help? Or is the way forward to create help in some specific non-JavaHelp way and any dependencies on Java-Help replace by something else? —— Reference: (1) Status of JavaHelp https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd6f2c0d5090e9628a9ca9ee7af6febb8ac94ed034455ebfd02a44a92%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E (2) Donation 6 Status https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf849eb22e67b1b53830693703b63f88c4d1203c101e7c8edd32c3b89%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E Eric -- Eric Bresie [email protected]
