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

[bert_vingerhoets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bert Vingerhoets)]

Thank you for your reply.

The PlatformUI way of starting the help system I already found out by 
reverse engineering (it's the way the workbench starts the visual help 
when navigating to the menu Help > Help Contents). However, as I said, I'm 
working on a headless server application. So I have no PlatformUI and no 
Workbench.

Thank you for the setProperty tip though. It slipped my mind.


Regards,
Bert Vingerhoets


Chris Goldthorpe wrote:

> 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.