GroovyHelp

GroovyHelp is a powerful API Documentation(Javadoc & Groovydoc) view, search and compare utility based on Java 6+, which can help Java developers, Groovy developers and Android developers search API documentations very conveniently. From Now on, you don`t have to waste time in finding help documentations in chm format and can manage all API documentations efficiently.

GroovyHelp3 is re-written from scratch for better performance and ease-of-use. Some specious features are removed and some practical features added. You can use GroovyHelp3 under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Enjoy it!

It is strongly recommended to run GroovyHelp on the Oracle JDK/JRE (1.6.0u10+ / 1.7.0u06+)

Main Features

- Allows to search API info(e.g. classes, Interfaces, methods, etc.) through keywords
- Supports full-text search and Highlights the result
- Displays packages and resources of documentations in tree style
- Displays source code related to documentation with syntax highlighted
- Allows to compare two documentations(e.g. javadocs of Java 7 and Java 6) and learn the changes of API quickly
- Bundles a lot of examples on Java API usage and Groovy programming.
- Supports all sorts of javadocs generated by Java 1.4+
- Supports all sorts of groovydocs generated by Groovy 1.8+
- Supports both English docs and Chinese docs
- Highlights code snippets in the web pages
- Supports javadocs in the zip files(e.g. *.zip, *.jar, *.war, *.Ear)
- Supports javadocs on the web sites(e.g. jexcelapi javadoc online)
- Allows to choose which JRE to run with through the environment variable named "GROOVYHELP_JAVA_HOME"
- Provides three types of web browsers(jfx browser, native browser and simple browser)
- Provides Online Dictionary support for Chinese users from Mainland China
- Provides the GroovyConsole to facilitate the trying of Groovy codes and Java codes(Tools -> Launch GroovyConsole)
- Supports changing skins