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Subject:Re: Oracle Help or Java Help -- how to choose? From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:39:07 -0400
IIRC, OracleHelp was developed by Oracle because they were sick and
tired of waiting for JavaHelp to be developed. ;-) They wrote their
own flavor of JavaHelp and later released it to the public when
JavaHelp development went from a trickle to a full stop.
On 6/6/05, James Jones <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
>
> Not very knowledgeable about help development technology. However, I do
> remember that Javahelp was designed to be used in conjunction with some
> other more user-friendly and writer friendly tool like WWP. Or some
> other HAT. Javahelp was considered to be more a tool for developers.
>
> Do not know anything at all about Oraclehelp.
>
> Jim Jones http://www.tinyurl.com/4arjc
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