Re: Oracle Help or Java Help -- how to choose?

[Bill Lawrence <lawrence -at- mayaviz -dot- com>]

At a previous job, we had to face the same decision.  We tested the 
stability and scalability of both JavaHelp and Oracle Help on various 
UNIX platforms and Windows, and we found significant problems with 
JavaHelp.  Aside from a number of bugs, JavaHelp doesn't scale well at 
all.  If you're planning on shipping a significant amount of 
documentation in this format, forget it.

Oracle Help has been in production as the standard help system for that 
particular company for about three years, with over 5,000 customer 
sites, and has been problem free.  The full-text search is actually both 
better and faster than the search engine in Microsoft HTML Help.  
Another plus for Oracle Help is that ships with the ICE browser, is a 
very capable Java-based browser.  Also, Oracle continues forward 
development on Oracle Help and it continues to improve.

Cheers,

Bill Lawrence



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