Javahelp Word Search Craps Out

[Timothy Patsch]

A guy posted the text below about a year ago with no response. I'm
having the same problem. I've checked and my jsearch.jar file is in
the classpath so it should be accessible to the help set viewer
(hsviewer.bat).

Any ideas?

Thank You.

I'm using JavaHelp 1.1 in an application; it works fine except for the
search. When
I enter a word to search for and press enter, I get:

Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.Error: InvocationTargetException while creating engine named
com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultSearchEngine for view:
javax.help.SearchView@69a4cb
at
javax.help.JHelpSearchNavigator.makeEngine(JHelpSearchNavigator.java:164)
at javax.help.JHelpSearchNavigator.access$0(JHelpSearchNavigator.java:115)
at
javax.help.JHelpSearchNavigator$MergingSearchEngine.<init>(JHelpSearchNaviga
tor.java:270)
at
javax.help.JHelpSearchNavigator.getSearchEngine(JHelpSearchNavigator.java:10
8)
at
javax.help.plaf.basic.BasicSearchNavigatorUI$SearchActionListener.actionPerf
ormed(BasicSearchNavigatorUI.java:96)
at javax.swing.JTextField.fireActionPerformed(JTextField.java:421)
at javax.swing.JTextField.postActionEvent(JTextField.java:586)
at javax.swing.JTextField$NotifyAction.actionPerformed(JTextField.java:696)
at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.notifyAction(SwingUtilities.java:1702)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBinding(JComponent.java:2156)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBindings(JComponent.java:2182)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyEvent(JComponent.java:2119)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:3555)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1164)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2595)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1213)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processKeyEvent(Container.java:2155)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:2135)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1200)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:912)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:319)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:103)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:84)

The relevant bit of the HelpSet looks like:

<view>
<name>Search</name>
<label>Search</label>
<type>javax.help.SearchView</type>
<data engine="com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultSearchEngine">
JavaHelpSearch</data>
</view>

and everything has been compiled with jhindexer (and I can use the
test
search
program supplied to interrogate it successfully).

Does anyone have any ideas?