[news.eclipse.platform.ua] Starting help system webapp

[bert_vingerhoets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bert Vingerhoets)]

Hi,

I'm trying to integrate documentation into a headless server application 
running on the Eclipse platform so that the help pages can be consulted 
with a browser.

As far as I understand the system, one way to start the 'help' webapp is 
to use the org.eclipse.help.standalone.Help or 
org.eclipse.help.standalone.InfoCenter classes. However, these start a new 
instance of Eclipse, which is silly because I already have one running.

At the moment I'm calling 
org.eclipse.help.internal.base.BaseHelpSystem.ensureWebappRunning() and 
ignoring the warnings about discouraged access. The problem with this 
approach is that I can't seem to configure the webapp's port (unless I 
pass the -Dserver_port VM argument, which is not an option as we have a 
centralized configuration file which should contain this kind of setting).

Is there an API (that allows specifying critical parameters such as 
listening port) to get the help webapp started from an Eclipse-based 
application?


Regards,
Bert Vingerhoets

Originally posted to news.eclipse.platform under the same subject