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Java Help Class?

How do we implemet "Help" in java?
Do we have a class to do this?. I have checked Java classes and could not find any. Could someone throw some light here?

All I am trying to do is to create and HELP option in my main menu and attach the help files into a class (if available)

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it depends on what kind of help you want to provide :-
If you want the help as a menu item , then you can just have simple static HTML files. And create a directory on your webserver and arrange the help files according to category. And put them as hyperlinks. ( typical examle the Java Tutorial).
If you want to implement dynamic help i.e. query based then you have to write a program ( servlet/jsp ) to serve the appropriate page, based on the query. In this case you have to also build a search so that it can search and locate the appropriate file to be displayed, based on the query. ( it is a kind of Knowledge based/expert help).
Hope this helps,
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If you are looking for the first option - you can use the Java Help 1.1.1 which generates and creates the tree hierarchy for your help docs.
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You can have an entire Jdk2 help made in simple HTML format using a java utility called 'javadoc'
Follow these steps
c:/>cd jdk\src
c:\jdk\src>This directory contains all the java files and class files for Jdk2 in zip format
run the jar utility as
c:\jdk\src>jar xvf src.jar
This command will extract all the java files and make nested directories as follows: java--awt and util,net,sql,io,and so on
go to
c:\jdk\src>cd java
c:\jdk\src\java>on running dir cmd will see all the directories
go to one you wish to for example
c:\jdk\src\java>cd awt
c:\jdk\src\java\awt>javadoc *.java
will create html help files in the current directory, similarly follow for other packages
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