Providing a user help feature

Hi,
I am developing an application and would like to provide the user of the application with a 'help' feature that would tell him how to use the application. I am pretty new to java and have no idea about how to go about doing this. Can anyone tell me what are the various ways in which this can be achieved?
Thanks a lot.

JavaHelp
http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/index.html

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Hoe to provide a download help for the user

hi all
How to provide a download help for users, i.e. if i select download radia button and
if i place cursor on file path it should provide the user to select what ever the drive and folder he needs can any body help asap.
regards
reddy.

Check this..
parameters : p_file like rlgrap-filename .
at selection-screen on value-request for p_file.
perform f4_on_filename using p_file .
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form f4_on_filename using i_file .
data:l_maske(100) type c, l_subrc type sy-subrc ,
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data:t_fileinfo   type table of ocs_f_info     .
concatenate 'Text Files (.prn;.txt;*.csv)'(006)
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    exceptions
      others      = 6.
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RE: (forte-users) Help on 'The class has been voided andcannot be insta

PB Solved.
The symtom was that my 'windows' plan that I distrubute call
the StartMethod of a class defined higher in the hierarchy,
and I had to specify that plan as direct supplier plan of my
new project for the 'voided' not to happen.
cheers
j-p
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Jean-Paul Gabrielli [mailto:Jean-Paul.Gabriellisema.fr]
Date: mercredi 5 juillet 2000 12:08
À: Klerk, Theo de
Objet: RE: (forte-users) Help on 'The class has been voided and cannot
be instanciated' plz
the issue is as follows:
I distribute a plan A
I want to rename the plan,
and create a plan B that has A as supplier.
Distributing B wor'ks
Running it fails with that issue.
Actually I recreated supplierplans in B as they were defined in A,
and the problem disappeared.
thansk for your time
j-paul
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Klerk, Theo de [mailto:Theo.de.Klerkcompaq.com]
Date: mardi 4 juillet 2000 22:31
À: 'Jean-Paul.Gabriellisema.fr'
Objet: RE: (forte-users) Help on 'The class has been voided and cannot
be instanciated' plz
Jean-Paul,
It would help if you have a bit more description around thesituation when
this error happens.
Could it be you have two service objects that refer to each other
while the
partition is still starting up? (SO's are not supposed to talk to
each other
during partition startup).
Or was the partition up and running?
Has the service object been in existence and used before itbecame voided?
Is the partition compiled or interpreted?
Theo de Klerk
Architecture & Application Integration
Professional Services
Compaq Computer Corp. - the Netherlands
PGP Fingerprint: 5A70 DD56 F3BA FE04 9DCA 1ACE 8581 0A2F F057 FA6E
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Paul Gabrielli [mailto:Jean-Paul.Gabriellisema.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, 04 July, 2000 18:17
To: Forte-Users
Subject: (forte-users) Help on 'The class has been voided and
cannot be
instanciated' plz
Hi,
Here's the stack I get:
SYSTEM ERROR: Failed to create service object
BOS.MyServicesMgrSO.
Class: qqsp_ResourceException
Error Time: Tue Jul 4 18:05:07
Exception occurred (locally) on partition "BC_cl0_Part3",
(partitionId =
AF3B67A0-3335-11D4-BE9D-963C5A7FAA77:0x224, taskId =
[AF3B67A0-3335-11D4-BE9D-963C5A7FAA77:0x224.6]) in application
"BC_cl0", pid 10328 on node MyServerin environment
CentralEnv.
SYSTEM ERROR: The class MyServericesMgr has been voided and cannot
be
instantiated in this partition.
Class: qqsp_UsageException with ReasonCode: SP_ER_INVALIDSTATE
Error #: [201, 14]
Detected at: qqlo_VoidedClassException at 1
Error Time: Tue Jul 4 18:05:07
Exception occurred (locally) on partition
"BC_cl0_Part3",
(partitionId =
AF3B67A0-3335-11D4-BE9D-963C5A7FAA77:0x224, taskId
=
[AF3B67A0-3335-11D4-BE9D-963C5A7FAA77:0x224.6]) in
application
"BC_cl0", pid 10328 on node MyServer in
environment
CentralEnv.
aud Tue Jul 4 18:05:07 : Shutting down partition due to
failure of this
partition.
aud Tue Jul 4 18:05:07 : Shutting down partition as requested.
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Hi Sylvain
Try using window.smallIconImage =
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Jairaj Rampershad
System Concultant
--- Sylvain_Porée <Sylvain.Poreesophia.sema.fr>
wrote:
Hi Forte Gurus,
I have tried to set an icon using this statement :
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Settable? Yes
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displayed.
Windows 95/NT only
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other platforms, the
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    dynpnr                = c_dynpnr
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VALUE                  = ' '
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CALLBACK_FORM          = ' '
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EXCEPTIONS
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