JHelpDev A Help Authoring Tool for JavaHelp™

Current Release 0.63, 14 May 2008

You want to provide your JAVA™ application with a professional looking, freely available, platform independent help system?

Create JavaHelp sets with JHelpDev, the first open source helpset editor. The project can be accessed via sourceforge.net/projects/jhelpdev.

... to be more specific

JHelpDev assists you in creating a JavaHelp set from existing HTML files with an intuitive graphical user interface that relieves you from the task of manually editing the necessary XML files. It allows you to easily create the table of contents (TOC.xml), the index (Index.xml), the main configuration file (MyHelp.hs), the map file (Map.jhm) as well as the search database. It creates the map automatically from existing HTML files including targets marked with <a name="xxx"></a>. JHelpDev comes with the JavaHelp 2.0 distribution and includes a helpset viewer.

One can use it perfectly together with latex2html to create a working helpset easily from a latex document by indexing the HTML files. Actually this was the main reason to start that project.

What is it not?

An HTML editor. There are plenty of excellent tools out there, lots of them freely available. JHelpDev is an add-on that deals with everything that is specific to JavaHelp.