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Bug 258706

Summary:	For a NetBeans based application there should be a possibility not to load modules in order to print help in console.
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Vladimir Kvashin <vkvashin>
Component:	-- Other --	Assignee:	Antonin Nebuzelsky <anebuzelsky>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	issues
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Vladimir Kvashin 2016-04-07 14:46:45 UTC

This considers NetBeans based applications. If user launches MyApp --help, then
splash screen is displayed, module system is loaded, help information is gathered from all providers and printed to console.

So the works relatively long time (in comparison with user expectations) and shows a spash screen.

But we develop an application on NetBeans platform, and we prefer to have a more fast, static way of getting help, without showing splash screen and loading module system - just from the launcher.

The request is to hive such possibility.

The possible solution could be: if there is a etc/help.txt file in installation directory, then MyApp --help just displays this file.

Sure it can be solved via cloning and hacking launcher (on Windows it's written in C/C++). But I don't think it is correct solution.