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How to enable local Java API docs for context-sensitive API help [message #144894]

Fri, 24 March 2006 16:37

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: Bernd.Giesen.gmx.net

Hi,

when I attempt to get context-sensitive help for a Java class (e.g. the
JDialog class from the Swing toolkit), my Eclipse 3.1.2 application always
opens an Internet connection to java.sun.com to display the appropriate
Java 2 SDK docs from there.

How/Where can I configure Eclipse (3.1.2) to use my existing local
installation of the Java 2 SDK docs instead?

--
kind regards,
Bernd

Re: How to enable local Java API docs for context-sensitive API help [message #144913 is a reply to message #144894]

Fri, 24 March 2006 19:26

Eclipse User

Bernd Giesen wrote:
> How/Where can I configure Eclipse (3.1.2) to use my existing local
> installation of the Java 2 SDK docs instead?

Open your Package Explorer, right click on the .jar library
you want to modify (something like foo\jre\lib\rt.jar),
select Properties from the menu. You should now see a dialog
asking for the Javadoc location that has a default value of
http://sun.com. Click the Browse button to point to your
local drive paying mind to the note about "package-list".

-paul

Re: How to enable local Java API docs for context-sensitive API help [message #144983 is a reply to message #144913]

Sat, 25 March 2006 10:53

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: Bernd.Giesen.gmx.net

Paul Moore wrote:

> Bernd Giesen wrote:
>> How/Where can I configure Eclipse (3.1.2) to use my existing local
>> installation of the Java 2 SDK docs instead?
>
> Open your Package Explorer, right click on the .jar library
> you want to modify (something like foo\jre\lib\rt.jar),
> select Properties from the menu. You should now see a dialog
> asking for the Javadoc location that has a default value of
> http://sun.com. Click the Browse button to point to your
> local drive paying mind to the note about "package-list".
>
> -paul

THX!
--
kind regards,
Bernd

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