Unfortunately I can't even get started, as the necessary download mentioned in the page, "eclipse Platform Runtime Binary driver", is not available at all from the eclipse download site.
Has this been replaced by something else?]]>Tony E.2010-06-30T17:37:25-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624225/#msg_624225
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/I2010070 6-0800/]]>Chris Goldthorpe2010-07-08T17:11:49-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624227/#msg_624227
Tony E.2010-07-08T18:06:27-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624234/#msg_624234
That being said I guess the instructions must be out of date on that link in my first post, because none of the instructions seem to work, right down to which .jar files have to be included in a standalone help system (the org.eclipse.tomcat jar file is no longer in the distribution). Also the example commands to start the help system don't seem to work either, I get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError message when I try and start it.
The thing is, I'm trying to use Eclipse as an online help system for a web application that's usually deployed with its own Jetty instance. I'm having a rather frustrating time determining if it's even possible to do that...]]>Tony E.2010-07-21T18:36:26-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624235/#msg_624235
> Thanks for the information. I did indeed mean 32-bit Windows.
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> [content removed] The link in my first post was to an older version of help, I have found a way to launch the help system.
>
> The thing is, I'm trying to use Eclipse as an online help system for a web application that's usually deployed with its own Jetty instance. I'm having a rather frustrating time determining if it's even possible to do that...
Is this an Eclipse application which already uses the Equinox extensions to launch a Jetty Web server? If so you can launch the help server on another port.]]>Chris Goldthorpe2010-07-22T18:36:00-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624236/#msg_624236
My initial idea would be to deploy the help as an application alongside the Java application on an alternate port. However to do that I think I would probably have to package some of the help-specific JARs in a WAR file. As eclipse help now uses Jetty this looks like it should be pretty straightforward... should :roll:
I probably need to read up on Eclipse Help (and the way it's structured) more before that plan can be realized, however...]]>Tony E.2010-07-22T18:47:31-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624238/#msg_624238
Chris Goldthorpe2010-07-26T21:20:31-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624239/#msg_624239
Tony E.2010-07-26T22:20:16-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624348/#msg_624348
http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/guide/ua_help_war.htm
I've followed everything to the letter, but when I try and deploy the help application I get a message right away that the server can't find the org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge framework, even though the jar file is in help/WEB-INF/lib, as per the instructions. At this point I'm starting to think that there's an additional instruction missing.
I'm using a plain-vanilla Jetty 7.1.6 for deployment.]]>Tony E.2010-07-30T20:38:48-00:00Re: Standalone help -- necessary download unavailable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/195886/624349/#msg_624349
Tony E.2010-07-30T21:24:05-00:00