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

[Chris Goldthorpe <cgold@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You could try something like this

System.setProperty("server_port", "8081");
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getHelpSystem().resolve("", false);

to start the help system on port 8081

It seems that there should be a cleaner way of setting the port through 
API but right now there is no way to do it.

Bert Vingerhoets wrote:
> 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