DoxMentor4J 0.1

DoxMentor4J is a standalone cross platform Web/Ajax based documentation library that is fully searchable and may be hosted in the file system, in an archive or embedded in the Java classpath.

Users create the library content structure and copy any online books or manuals into directories in the library structure. DoxMentor4J then provides a dedicated web server which presents the library as a tree structure on a web page. Users can navigate through the tree to locate online books. The tree is AJAX based so there is no large initial download of all the nodes in the content structure, instead the nodes are downloaded as they are opened.

Because DoxMentor4J is a cross platform Java based application, user can write their online library to CD/DVD or flash and have it available wherever they go on different machines and operating systems.

The web server framework classes used by DoxMentor4J is called HttpdBase4J and it supports content inside archive files or in jar and zip files in the Java classpath. The content can therefore be hosted in one compressed file, and as many documentation files are often text based this means the space saving can be meaningful. Additionally it can be more convenient to have all the content in one file.

This software also supports full text indexing and searching of content using the Lucene library. Content indexing may be enabled/disabled on a node by node basis. Search indices can be accessed inside an archive or on cd/dvd. The indexing code currently supports text, html, pdf, chm and djvu.