Java documentation
Hi everybody,
If you often use the Java documentation, and if you think it is not very easy to look for information, I inform you that I built a CHM (compiled HTML) version of the Java SDK 5.0 documentation. The advantages are :
- Only one file of 38 MB instead of hundreds of small files, totalling 200 MB
- A tree view of the packages
- An index of all the methods, properties and classes
- A built-in full-text search engine
- Faster to load than running a full web-browser
You can download this file at http://www.mwyann.info/javadoc/
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[710 byte] By [
Mwyanna] at [2007-10-2 11:13:49]
Yes, I'm aware of this problem... But I don't know any "help" format like CHM and cross-platform compatible. If you have some suggestions about that problem, or any suggestion at all, feel free to tell me :)
I once wrote a little Web-server in Java which serves requests from zip files. So I just drop the zip file into the "docroot" and restart the server and I do not need to unzip the JDK documentation (or POI or velocity or ant or HTML or JDOM or whatever, provided it is a zipped set of HTML files).
But it is another apporach.
But with your web-server based solution, you cannot search into the documentation, and it is not very fast I think... That's why the CHM is a quite good system for the windows-users at least. And as quite all my friends uses Windows when programming in java, they find it more useful than using the uncompressed zip.
