Searching the Java documentation made easy !
WinHelp and HtmlHelp systems provides a structured table of contents, a complete index, and a full-text search feature. Don't remember the parameters of StringBuffer.replace() ? Just type 'replace' in the index, and you get it in a snap. Alternatively, you can browse the table of contents tree to find the StringBuffer class methods. All the documentation is packaged in a single CHM file, and is instantly available, even if you're offline.
It saves me hours of API browsing. I hope it will be the same for you.
This website will no longer be updated and remains online as a memory of the ancient times, when browsing online documentation was a pain.
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Unix or MacOS users, xCHM may help you to use HTMLHelp documentation on your machines.
The documentation you want is not here ? Check Javadoc To CHM, a Python script that generates Microsoft HTML Help projects files from a Javadoc documentation. A great tool written by André Burgaud.
See also javadoc2chm by Jan Bareš, another very nice, simple and efficient conversion tool which translates Javadoc documentation to Microsoft Compiled HTML Help file (*.chm).
Note for the curious: The documents available here are not generated by one of these tools, but by a bunch of home brewed Java code.
Installation instructions
Sorry, no fancy setup. Just create a directory wherever you want on your hard disk, in which you will
uncompress the zip file. That's all. To start the help file, double-click the .chm file, and you're done.
You can create a shortcut to the CHM file and put it in the Start menu or on your desktop to have instant access to the documentation. You may then change the shortcut icon to the one provided.
To register the CHM files, and thus starting them from a network drive, you can use HelpMaker CHM Register, a nice free tool from Visacc, the authors of HelpMaker, a free WinHelp and HTMLHelp authoring system.
Alternatively, EC Software provides HHReg, a free HTML Help registration utility.
You can create a shortcut to the CHM file and put it in the Start menu or on your desktop to have instant access to the documentation. You may then change the shortcut icon to the one provided.
WARNING about running help files from a network drive
In most cases, you can't run CHM files from a network drive: a registration is required
since Microsoft issued a security patch for Microsoft Internet Explorer,
disabling in general all HTML Help files that are viewed from a network drive.
To register the CHM files, and thus starting them from a network drive, you can use HelpMaker CHM Register, a nice free tool from Visacc, the authors of HelpMaker, a free WinHelp and HTMLHelp authoring system.
Alternatively, EC Software provides HHReg, a free HTML Help registration utility.
Copyrights and Redistribution policy
Original HTML documentation are Copyright Oracle and/or its affiliates, all rights reserved,
and are available at Oracle Java site.
This software is free. Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software for non-commercial purposes via the Internet without fee is hereby granted. Permission is not granted for any distribution in the form of CD-ROM. Please for more information.
Oracle documentation redistribution policy is applicable to these documents. See this page for more information.
This software is free. Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software for non-commercial purposes via the Internet without fee is hereby granted. Permission is not granted for any distribution in the form of CD-ROM. Please for more information.
Oracle documentation redistribution policy is applicable to these documents. See this page for more information.
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