Sun is encouraging all technology groups to use our tools to highlight the new
technologies that they produce, thus using the IDE as a teaching tool. We need
some enhancements to make this easier.

One prime example is the BluePrints Solutions Catalog. They provide HTML pages
in the IDE that explain a project, and the projects themselves. If a user just
opens the project, they have no indication that there is accompanying
documentation. If they go to the documentation, there is no easy way for the
user to open a file at a given location or deploy the project. The guide has to
tell the user where the file is and leave it to the user to find it themselves.

What we need is a way to display HTML documentation for a sample project in the
IDE and allow to open files and run commands from HTML documents and online help
pages. 

There are several parts to this feature:

    * P1 Make it easy to open sample projects from code in a web page. When an
article or tutorial has an accompanying project, we have a link that says "Click
to install in NetBeans". The link would search for an open NB instance, open one
if none is open, download the project and place it somewhere on the user's
computer, and open it in the IDE. This would be great for things like the
OpenJDK? projects.
    * P1 Provide a way to open an accompanying HTML file whenever an example
project is created. Optionally, provide a node in the Projects window for the docs.
    * P3 Provide a lightweight component that could be accessed from any HTML
embedded in JavaHelp viewer or other HTML viewer in the IDE (for example the
BluePrints Solutions Catalog). The component would let you open a Source File in
any open project at a specified location and open IDE dialogs and select certain
fields/nodes/panels in that dialog.