Help Support

Abstract

Eclipse provides a powerful help system that can be used to add documentation to your RCP applications quickly and with minimal effort. The help system has the following characteristics:

• Browser-based presentation, with full HTML support

• Supported on all of the Eclipse platforms¹

• Powerful built-in search capabilities

• Localization for additional languages

• Support for context help and a keyword index, provided the appropriate content files are used

• Support for a web-based information center to host the documentation on the Internet

• Programmatic extension points for content producers to generate dynamic help, including the table of contents, keyword index, and content, which can be useful for document format conversion

A list of all the platforms supported by release build 3.4.1 is available online at http://download. eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4.1-200809111700/index.php.