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[ptp-dev] Deploying Eclipse help on a Web server
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On the user call today, we briefly discussed the fact that Eclipse help books can be made available on a Web server, as is done at
http://help.eclipse.org
I don't have a lot of experience with this -- just a quick setup in a test environment -- but here are some links.
The Eclipse InfoCenter is run as a Java (command line) application, which runs its own web server (Jetty?) to serve help content from a preconfigured set of Eclipse Help plug-ins. In production, you would want to put it behind an Apache proxy -- i.e., when Apache gets a request for certain URLs, it forwards them on to the InfoCenter, and then returns its response. I think that's mostly to isolate the InfoCenter for security reasons (Apache checks and filters the HTTP requests/responses), although I believe Apache's proxy module can do some caching as well, which might give you better performance. Details of how to set everything up are in the Platform Plug-in Developer Guide:
