6.1.7 Evaluating Eclipse Help
Eclipse Help is specific to the open-source Eclipse Platform. Eclipse is built on a mechanism for integrating and running modules the Eclipse Community calls plug-ins. An Eclipse plug-in connects to an Eclipse Platform at an extension point, providing information about itself in an XML manifest file. For information about Eclipse, see:
Eclipse Help is based on an XML table of contents that specifies the structure of the Help system and references content in standard HTML files. Eclipse Help plugs into an Eclipse Platform, which provides the viewer. Eclipse Help can provide context-sensitive help (in the form of "infopops") for other Eclipse applications. Eclipse 3.1 supports Eclipse Help contents and infopops; Eclipse 3.2 is expected to support an Eclipse Help index as well.
See §11 Generating Eclipse Help.
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