Swing application with JavaHelp crashes outside Netbeans IDE.

Question

Hi guys I have developed a small swing application in Netbeans IDE. I used the following code inside the IDE for JH.
public void createHelp()
       try {
               URL hsURL = new URL("jar:file:eDictionaryHelp.jar!/eDictionaryHelp/eDictionary.hs");
               hs = new HelpSet(null, hsURL);
       catch (Exception ee)
        // Say what the exception really is
        System.out.println( "HelpSet " + ee.getMessage());
        System.out.println("HelpSet "+ helpHS +" not found");
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(new JFrame(), ee.getMessage(), "Error", ERROR_MESSAGE);
        hb = hs.createHelpBroker();
   }When I run the program inside the IDE and and click on the corresponding MenuItem.. JavaHelp comes up as it should! No problems with that.
But when I build the project and tried to run it from the .jar file in the PROJECT_HOME/dist/ the swing got displayed till this function was called. and then it simply crashed.
Investigating further and commenting out one line at a time and compiling I found out that whenever the hs = new HelpSet(null, hsURL); is encountered, the app crashes (it doesnt throw any error).
But as I said this is not the case when i run and compile inside the IDE. I only get this problem when running the app from outside the IDE.
I have tried all kinds of combinations of the URL .. for eg ( I am aware of Bug 4149782)
ClassLoader cl = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
try {
               URL hsURL = HelpSet.findHelpSet(cl, helpHS);
.What can be the problem guys? Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Anyone has an answer on this?
I am facing the same problem.. I am using NetBeans 5.5
arijit_datta, do u have a solution for this problem already?
Thanks,
SK