I'm packaging ProjectX for RPM Fusion, an add-on repository for Fedora. The reviewer noted that the "help" didn't work. After investigation, I realized it only looked for help files in the current directory. But programs are run all over the place, not only from a certain directory.
At first I looked at changing so ProjectX would look for the help files at a fixed place in the file system. But then I figured out that a simpler solution would be to include them in the jar file instead.
I would like to suggest you include this change in the official version. I include the obvious patch to make it happen.
The review ticket, if you are interested, can be found at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985
Suggested patch to include help in jar