Hi Jens and thanks for the great work. I have a student at University of Belgrade, Aleksandra Misic [email protected], who is doing an open source project and is interested to contribute to this project. I will also help her. So what what would be the best way to contribute and push development of this hel plugin? I think that it would be very useful for many NetBeans Platform based applications.
Best regards Zoran On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:33 PM Jens Hofschröer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 08.03.2021 um 11:33 schrieb Jens Hofschröer: > > Hi > > > > Am 07.03.2021 um 18:49 schrieb Eric Bresie: > >> 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? > > > > > > > May be I can extract the more generic part an open source it, but I can > > not say in which time frame due to my daily work. > > Here is an eary version: https://github.com/nigjo/nb-help > > The default implementation just sends the JavaHelp page to the local > Browser. No navigation like in JavaHelp itself. It is possible to reuse > this in an RCP and the implementations can be replaced by own > "renderers". I updated our own help system to use this module, so this > might be updated in the future. > > There are currently not that many JavaDocs, but most is done via > services. Also there are no security checks for the output, so be aware > and use it only in an trusted environment. > > Jens > > -- > http://blog.nigjo.de/netbeans/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > > -- Zoran Sevarac, PhD, Associate Professor University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Department for Software Engineering Java Champion <https://community.oracle.com/community/java/java-champions> | Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador | Deep Netts <http://www.deepnetts.com> Co-founder & CEO
