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| <h2>Deploying the infocenter as a Web Archive</h2> |
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| <p>Using Eclipse 3.4 or later it is possible to configure the help plugins to be deployed |
| as a web archive (war file) which will act as a fully <br> |
| functioning infocenter. The instructions below assume a Tomcat server has been |
| installed, but with minor modifications <br> |
| these steps should work for any full featured server. <br> |
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| In your Eclipse installation locate the plugin org.eclipse.help.webapp.<version>.jar |
| and copy it to a temporary directory, <br> |
| unzip the copy into that folder.</p> |
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| <li>In the webapp plugin locate the web-archive directory and underneath that |
| there will be two directories titled "help" and <br> |
| "org.eclipse.help.infocenter-feature".</li> |
| <li>Import the org.eclipse.help.infocenter-feature using File->Import->Existing |
| Project.</li> |
| <li>Export org.eclipse.help.infocenter-feature as a deployable feature and set |
| the destination to be |
| web-archive/help/WEB-INF/eclipse in the area where org.eclipse.help.webapp.<version>.jar |
| was unzipped.</li> |
| <li>Add some documentation plugins to the webapps/help/WEB-INF/eclipse/plugins |
| directory.</li> |
| <li>Download org.eclipse.equinox.http.servletbridge_<version>.jar and |
| org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge_<version>.jar from the |
| <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/equinox/">equinox download site</a>. |
| Select a version of Equinox that matches the version of Eclipse you are |
| running to take you to the downloads page.</li> |
| <li>Extract servletbridge.jar from org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge_<version>.jar.</li> |
| <li>Add the file servletbridge.jar to the help/WEB-INF/lib directory. You may |
| need to create this directory.</li> |
| <li>Add the file org.eclipse.equinox.http.servletbridge_<version>.jar to the |
| help/WEB-INFeclipse/plugins directory</li> |
| <li>At this stage you can create a war file from the help directory or you can |
| copy the directory and its contents to the webapps |
| folder of your Tomcat installation.</li> |
| <li>Start Tomcat and see the help system start up.</li> |
| </ol>Notes: If you look in the config.ini in the help.war file under directory help/WEB_INF/eclipse/configuration |
| you will notice the <br> |
| line eclipse.product=org.eclipse.productname. If your product has help system |
| customizations in a product plugin you can <br> |
| activate these by changing this line to point to your product plugin.<br> |
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