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