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| 14 : | <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF">Information | ||
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| 19 : | dbirsan | 1.4 | <td>Infocenter (served) - You can also allow your users to access the help system over the |
| 20 : | Internet or their intranet, by installing the stand-alone help system and the documentation | ||
| 21 : | plug-ins on a web server. The application accesses the documentation by calling a URL, | ||
| 22 : | and the help system is shown in their web browser. The infocenter help system can be | ||
| 23 : | used both for client applications and for web applications, either of which can have | ||
| 24 : | their help accessed remotely. | ||
| 25 : | All features except infopops and active help are supported. | ||
| 26 : | kkolosow | 1.1 | <p><b>Installing steps:</b> |
| 27 : | dbirsan | 1.2 | <ol> |
| 28 : | <li> Make sure an application server is installed on the machine. | ||
| 29 : | kkolosow | 1.1 | We have tested with Tomcat 3 and Tomcat 4. |
| 30 : | dbirsan | 1.2 | </li> |
| 31 : | <li>Install (unzip) Eclipse 2.0 driver. This steps are for | ||
| 32 : | kkolosow | 1.1 | 20020411 integration driver or later. Let us assume Eclipse has been |
| 33 : | installed to d:\eclipse\. | ||
| 34 : | dbirsan | 1.2 | </li> |
| 35 : | <li>Register Eclipse Help application residing in d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp | ||
| 36 : | kkolosow | 1.1 | with the web server. Do not copy this directory elsewhere, it must |
| 37 : | remain in eclipse installation tree. | ||
| 38 : | <br>In Tomcat this can be accomplished by adding the two lines | ||
| 39 : | dbirsan | 1.2 | <br><em><Context path="/help" docBase="d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp"> |
| 40 : | <br></Context></em> | ||
| 41 : | kkolosow | 1.1 | <br>to the tomcat/conf/server.xml file. In Tomcat 3 this section |
| 42 : | can be added near end of the file, as the last element inside the ContextManager | ||
| 43 : | section. In Tomcat 4 this section can be added as the last element | ||
| 44 : | inside the Host section. | ||
| 45 : | dbirsan | 1.2 | </li> |
| 46 : | <li>Install server specific fixes. | ||
| 47 : | <ul> | ||
| 48 : | <li><b>Tomcat 3:</b> Tomcat 3 does not have XML parser library | ||
| 49 : | available to a web application. To fix that, copy xerces.jar from | ||
| 50 : | d:\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.xerces\ to d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\WEB-INF\lib\ | ||
| 51 : | </li> | ||
| 52 : | <li><b>Tomcat 4:</b> Both Eclipse and Tomcat contain code to set | ||
| 53 : | a URLStreamHandler, but it can only be set once. To allow both Tomcat | ||
| 54 : | and Eclipse to work correctly, a library d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\eclipseurl.jar | ||
| 55 : | needs to be added to the class path at Tomcat startup. In Tomcat | ||
| 56 : | 4.0.3 edit tomcat/bin/setclasspath.bat file and after a line | ||
| 57 : | |||
| 58 : | <br><em>set CLASSPATH=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar</em> | ||
| 59 : | <br>insert line | ||
| 60 : | <br><em>set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\eclipseurl.jar.</em> | ||
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| 62 : | </li> | ||
| 63 : | dbirsan | 1.3 | <li><b>Disable precompiled JSP's:</b>. Unless you are using Tomcat 4.0.1 or plan to ship the jasper |
| 64 : | jar files you should also copy d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\web.xml to | ||
| 65 : | d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\WEB-INF. | ||
| 66 : | </li> | ||
| 67 : | dbirsan | 1.2 | </ul> |
| 68 : | </li> | ||
| 69 : | </ol> | ||
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| 71 : | kkolosow | 1.1 | <p><b>Using Information center:</b> |
| 72 : | <br>Start web server. | ||
| 73 : | <br>Point a web browser to the path of the web application. On the | ||
| 74 : | machine the Tomcat is installed, this would be <a href="http://localhost:8080/help/">http://localhost:8080/help/</a>. | ||
| 75 : | <p><b>Installing custom documentation:</b> | ||
| 76 : | <br>Eclipse comes with its own documentation. It will be available | ||
| 77 : | in the infocenter by default. | ||
| 78 : | <br>To have you own documentation show up, package the documentation as | ||
| 79 : | Eclipse plugins. Install them to d:\eclipse\plugins\. To remove | ||
| 80 : | Eclipse documentation that is in the infocenter default, delete following | ||
| 81 : | dbirsan | 1.2 | directories: |
| 82 : | <ul> | ||
| 83 : | <li>d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv | ||
| 84 : | <li> d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user | ||
| 85 : | <li>d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.pde.doc.user | ||
| 86 : | <li> d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv | ||
| 87 : | <li>d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.platform.doc.user. | ||
| 88 : | </ul> | ||
| 89 : | kkolosow | 1.1 | <p><b>Customizing infocenter look:</b> |
| 90 : | <br>TBD</td> | ||
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