Including the Eclipse 3.3 help system in RCP applications
I just updated the help system for one of my tutorial RCP applications to Eclipse 3.3. I wanted to use the Jetty stack instead of Tomcat, like the Eclipse 3.3 SDK does. Since the help on “RCP help” is still a bit outdated, it took me a while to collect all necessary plug-ins. Here is the list of plug-ins you need to deploy with your Eclipse 3.3 RCP based application if you want to use the Jetty stack (in alphabetical order):
- javax.servlet
- javax.servlet.jsp
- org.apache.commons.el
- org.apache.commons.logging
- org.apache.jasper
- org.apache.lucene
- org.apache.lucene.analysis
- org.eclipse.core.variables
- org.eclipse.equinox.http.jetty
- org.eclipse.equinox.http.registry
- org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet
- org.eclipse.equinox.jsp.jasper
- org.eclipse.equinox.jsp.jasper.registry
- org.eclipse.help.appserver
- org.eclipse.help.base
- org.eclipse.help.ui
- org.eclipse.help.webapp
- org.eclipse.osgi.services
- org.motbay.jetty
Hi,
I wonder if it makes sense to create an “official” org.eclipse.help feature which contains all these dependencies (like org.eclipse.rcp). We have created our own, after we spent quite some time figuring out what’s required too.
Cheers
Markus
Hi Markus,
actually I did the same and would consider it a good idea to provide a standard help feature for further reuse.
Thanks Kai. Very useful!
Creating a feature sounds like a good idea. Did you file a bug for this? Could you add me to the cc list? Thanks!
Kai, can you raise a bug against the “help” documentation?
Hi
+1 I also did the same. You should create a bugzilla entry for this.
Nicolas
I have filed a feature request (bug id 202160) and a documentation bug (bug id 202159)
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Thank you for sharing!
There is a typo, it should be: org.eclipse.core.variables
Thanks, typo fixed.
And mortbay instead of motbay.
thx a lot
org.eclipse.ui.forms is missing (here)
Hi, I am working on an RCP application development and have tried quite a bit to get the help system running but inspite of including all these plugins mentioned above, the help contents just dont show up. Any suggestions. I am using Eclipse 3.4.
My product file contains all these plugins. Am i missing on something here.
JM,
in Eclipse 3.4 there is a help feature included, don’t make your own.