Managed Bean Help for Definition Help

Question

I am working on creating Managed Bean Help for Definition Help as described in ‘19.5.3 How to Create Managed Bean Help’ section of the Web User Interface Developer's Guide fpr ADF. Using JDev Version 11.1.2.1.0.
Thought I had all the artifacts assembled but when I run the log message is: <ELHelpProvider> <_getTranslationMap> ELHelpProvider's helpSourceExpression is null.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the managed bean:
public class ELHelpProviderProjRequest extends ELHelpProvider {
    public ELHelpProviderProjRequest() {       
    /* To use the HelpProvider, the EL expression in the helpTopicId attribute must point to a Map, otherwise
       * you will get a coerceToType error. */
    public Map<String, String> getHelpMap()
          Iterator iterator = _HELP_MAP.entrySet().iterator();                
          while(iterator. hasNext()){       
          System.out.println("hash map entry " + iterator.next());
        return _HELP_MAP;
    static private final Map<String, String> _HELP_MAP = new HashMap<String, String>();
        static {
          // each element [put] can be for a separate helpTopicId attribute
          _HELP_MAP.put("MAPHELP_CATEGORY_CAPITAL_DEFINITION", "Map value for credit card definition");
          _HELP_MAP.put("MAPHELP_CATEGORY_OTHER_DEFINITION", "Map value for credit card instructions");         
}  Here is the adf-setting.xml in Application sources / META-INF:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<adf-settings xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/settings" > 
  <adf-faces-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/settings">
  <help-provider prefix="MAPHELP_">
    <help-provider-class>   
        com.corpnet.abc.util.ELHelpProviderProjRequest
    </help-provider-class>
    <property>
      <property-name>helpSource</property-name>
      <value>#{helpTranslationMap.helpMap}</value>
    </property>
  </help-provider>
</adf-faces-config> 
</adf-settings>Here is the faces-config:
<managed-bean>
    <managed-bean-name>helpTranslationMap</managed-bean-name>
    <managed-bean-class> com.corpnet.abc.util.ELHelpProviderProjRequest </managed-bean-class>
    <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
  </managed-bean>Here is the helpTopicId in the inputText component:
<af:inputText value="Test" inlineStyle="font-weight: bold;" id="it31" simple="true" helpTopicId="MAPHELP_CATEGORY_CAPITAL" readOnly="true"/>

Answer 1

Register the managed-bean as a help provider in the adf-settings xml like:
Example 19-9 Registering a Managed Bean as a Help Provider
<adf-settings xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/settings">
<adf-faces-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/settings">
<help-provider prefix="MAPHELP_">
<help-provider-class>
oracle.adf.view.rich.help.ELHelpProvider
</help-provider-class>
<property>
<property-name>helpSource</property-name>
<value>#{helpTranslationMap.helpMap}</value>
</property>
</help-provider>
</adf-faces-config>
</adf-settings>
As you've pointed out, Review section 19.5.3 for more details -> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24382_01/web.1112/e16181/af_message.htm#CHDHIGIA
You could also investigate use the OHW product available here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/help/index-083946.html