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Hi gurus,
pleae help me with this one. i am new to the eclipse IDE.
i have a simple question,how can i view the eclipse documentation and help offline within the IDE. currently when i try to view any help topic, it tries to get connected to the net. how can i use the help without connecting to the internet?
also its the same case with the java documentation, while trying to view it. i have the java docs for jdk1.5 installed on my machine. but still ecllipse ignores it and tries to get connected to the net.thanks.
how can i view the eclipse documentation and help offline within the IDE. currently when i try to view any help topic, it tries to get connected to the net.
If your talking about the documentation in Help > Help Contents the help is generally served from your machine. However, Eclipse uses a local instance of Tomcat to serve the help so you might be seeing an alarm in your firewall software about opening a socket. You can adjust the port that the internal Eclipse help system runs on at Window > Preferences > Help > Help Server. When all the options are blank (as by default) it uses a random port on your machine for Tomcat to server the help docs.
Note, that doesn’t mean that it’s not possible to have part of the help docs served remotely, because it certainly is. Howevr, that’s not the “general” case with the bundled Eclipse help documentation.
Moving to OT > Soft Dev
Also you might want to check out this article: http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t61758.html
