Displaying Help in an Alternate Browser

The online help is designed to be viewed in the JavaHelp viewer, which is intergrated in the IDE. If you prefer, you can view the online help in the IDE's web browser or in another browser.

The online help is divided into several help sets. Most help sets are packaged in a JAR file, while a few help sets are packaged in a zip file. Help sets are typically stored in the modules/docs directory in your installation directory. The file usersguide.jar includes the core online help. This help set describes how to manage project and files, how to design a user interface, how to compile, debug and run Java programs, and so on.

To extract the online help from a JAR file:

  1. Change directory to the modules/docs directory in your installation directory and view the JAR files in that directory.
  2. Enter the command:

    jar xf jar-file

    where jar-file is the filename of the JAR file from which to extract files.

    The Jar tool makes copies of the desired files and writes them to the current directory, reproducing the directory structure that the files have in the archive.

For example, to extract the core online help, change directory to your installation_dir/modules/docs and enter the command jar xf usersguide.jar. The core help files are reproduced in org/netbeans/modules/usersguide under modules/docs. The following table provides pointers on where to start browsing the core help.

If you want information on Go to this file in
modules/docs/org/netbeans/modules/usersguide
Getting Started getstart/ide.html
Filesystems and Objects filesystems/filesystems-objects.html
Projects in the IDE project/project.html
Designing Java GUIs gui/intro.html
Editing Source Files editing/intro.html
Compiling and Running Java Programs compile/compile_run.html
Debugging Java Programs debug/debug.html
Working With Java Source java/intro.html
Editing Resource Bundles propfiles/editbundles.html
Using Version Control in the IDE vcs-nb/vcs_overview.html
Using Scripting Languages scripting/scripting.html
Building With Ant ant/building.html
Developing JSP and Servlet Files jsp/jsp_jump.html
Web Server Integration j2eeserver/about_the_j2eeserver_module.html
Configuring the Environment configure/configure.html
Accessibility accessibility/accessibility_home.html

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