Modular JavaHelp? Can the Merge function cope with non-existent help sets?

We are writing a universal application which is intended eventually to manage perhaps 20 different pieces of our equipment. There will be a skeleton/umbrella application that is always present, and each customer will receive plug-in modules for the pieces of equipment they buy.
We want the help system to seamlessly display all and only the modules that are present, indexed and made searchable; without mentioning others that are not present.
My predecessors here were convinced that JavaHelp could cope with that. I don't see how.
Three of the twenty modules are ready to go now, and I don't know what to do about the 17 or so that are missing. Do I add them to the main help set via the merge function using ficititous names and locations which then have to be recorded for posterity so the other modules when they are issued will know what to call their help and where to put it? If I don't add their names now, how will the main help set know when and if they show up?
TIA for any advice and suggestions you have.
Alfred B. Stansbury

We are doing something similar. In our case, the skeleton app has a plugin extension point for help. Its a very simple extension point only specifying the path to a javahelp helpset. Any plugin modules that extend this extension point have those help sets loaded into the main skeleton help. Java helps merge capability makes this all possible.
Nick

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