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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF">Information |
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Center</font></font></b></td> |
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<td>Infocenter (served) - You can also allow your users to access the help system over the |
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Internet or their intranet, by installing the stand-alone help system and the documentation |
Infocenter (served) - You can also allow your users to access |
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plug-ins on a web server. The application accesses the documentation by calling a URL, |
the help system over the Internet or their intranet, by |
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and the help system is shown in their web browser. The infocenter help system can be |
installing the stand-alone help system and the documentation |
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used both for client applications and for web applications, either of which can have |
plug-ins on a web server. The application accesses the |
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their help accessed remotely. |
documentation by calling a URL, and the help system is shown in |
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All features except infopops and active help are supported. |
their web browser. The infocenter help system can be used both |
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<p><b>Installing steps:</b> |
for client applications and for web applications, either of |
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which can have their help accessed remotely. All features except |
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infopops and active help are supported. |
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<b>Installation</b> |
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<li> Make sure an application server is installed on the machine. |
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We have tested with Tomcat 3 and Tomcat 4. |
Make sure an application server is installed on the |
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machine. We have tested with Tomcat 3 and Tomcat 4. |
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<li>Install (unzip) Eclipse 2.0 driver. This steps are for |
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20020411 integration driver or later. Let us assume Eclipse has been |
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installed to d:\eclipse\. |
Install (unzip) Eclipse 2.0 driver. This steps are |
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for 20020411 integration driver or later. Let us |
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<li>Register Eclipse Help application residing in d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp |
assume Eclipse has been installed to d:\eclipse\. |
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with the web server. Do not copy this directory elsewhere, it must |
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remain in eclipse installation tree. |
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<br>In Tomcat this can be accomplished by adding the two lines |
Register Eclipse Help application residing in |
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<br><em><Context path="/help" docBase="d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp"> |
d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp with the web |
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<br></Context></em> |
server. Do not copy this directory elsewhere, it |
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<br>to the tomcat/conf/server.xml file. In Tomcat 3 this section |
must remain in eclipse installation tree.<br> |
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can be added near end of the file, as the last element inside the ContextManager |
In Tomcat this can be accomplished by adding the two |
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section. In Tomcat 4 this section can be added as the last element |
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inside the Host section. |
<em><Context path="/help" |
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docBase="d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp"><br> |
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<li><b>Tomcat 3:</b> Tomcat 3 does not have XML parser library |
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available to a web application. To fix that, copy xerces.jar from |
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d:\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.xerces\ to d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\WEB-INF\lib\ |
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<li><b>Tomcat 4:</b> Both Eclipse and Tomcat contain code to set |
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a URLStreamHandler, but it can only be set once. To allow both Tomcat |
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and Eclipse to work correctly, a library d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\eclipseurl.jar |
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needs to be added to the class path at Tomcat startup. In Tomcat |
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4.0.3 edit tomcat/bin/setclasspath.bat file and after a line |
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<br><em>set CLASSPATH=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar</em> |
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<br><em>set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\eclipseurl.jar.</em> |
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to the tomcat/conf/server.xml file. In Tomcat 3 this |
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section can be added near end of the file, as the last |
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element inside the ContextManager section. In Tomcat |
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4 this section can be added as the last element inside the |
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<li><b>Disable precompiled JSP's:</b>. Unless you are using Tomcat 4.0.1 or plan to ship the jasper |
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jar files you should also copy d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\web.xml to |
Install server specific fixes. |
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<b>Tomcat 3:</b> Tomcat 3 does not have XML |
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d:\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.xerces\ to |
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<b>Tomcat 4:</b> Both Eclipse and Tomcat |
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contain code to set a URLStreamHandler, but it can |
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only be set once. To allow both Tomcat and |
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Eclipse to work correctly, a library |
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d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\eclipseurl.jar |
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needs to be added to the class path at Tomcat |
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startup. In Tomcat 4.0.3 edit |
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tomcat/bin/setclasspath.bat file and after a |
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<em>set CLASSPATH=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar</em><br> |
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CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\eclipseurl.jar.</em> |
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<b>Disable precompiled JSP's:</b>. Unless you |
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are using Tomcat 4.0.1 or plan to ship the jasper |
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d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\infocenter\web.xml |
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d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\WEB-INF. |
d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.webapp\WEB-INF. |
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<p><b>Using Information center:</b> |
<b>Using Information center:</b><br> |
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<br>Start web server. |
Start web server.<br> |
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<br>Point a web browser to the path of the web application. On the |
Point a web browser to the path of the web application. |
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machine the Tomcat is installed, this would be <a href="http://localhost:8080/help/">http://localhost:8080/help/</a>. |
On the machine the Tomcat is installed, this would be <a |
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<p><b>Installing custom documentation:</b> |
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<br>Eclipse comes with its own documentation. It will be available |
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in the infocenter by default. |
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<br>To have you own documentation show up, package the documentation as |
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Eclipse plugins. Install them to d:\eclipse\plugins\. To remove |
<b>Installing custom documentation:</b><br> |
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Eclipse documentation that is in the infocenter default, delete following |
Eclipse comes with its own documentation. It will be |
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available in the infocenter by default.<br> |
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To have you own documentation show up, package the |
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documentation as Eclipse plugins. Install them to |
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d:\eclipse\plugins\. To remove Eclipse documentation |
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that is in the infocenter default, delete following |
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<li>d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv |
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<li> d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user |
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<li>d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.pde.doc.user |
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<li> d:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv |
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<p><b>Customizing infocenter look:</b> |
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<br>TBD</td> |
<b>Customizing infocenter look:</b><br> |
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TBD |
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