Using Help in a Standalone Mode

You might find it useful to launch Workshop help in a standalone mode. For example, due to a characteristic of Eclipse (on which Workshop is built), restarting the IDE by default causes links in an already open help browser to become unavailable after restart. You can have help functionality that's uninterrupted by IDE restarts by launching help in a mode that uses a standalone help server installed with the IDE.

To start standalone help

1. At the command line execute the following. (Execute this command on a single line; it is broken into multiple lines here for readability.)

         %BEA_HOME%\jdk150_06\bin\java 
           -classpath %BEA_HOME%\tools\eclipse_3.2.2\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.base_3.2.2.R322_v20061207.jar 
           org.eclipse.help.standalone.Infocenter 
           -command start 
           -eclipsehome %BEA_HOME%\tools\eclipse_3.2.2\eclipse 
           -port 7034
           -noexec

2. Open a web browser and go to the following URL:

   http://localhost:7034/help/index.jsp

To shut down standalone help

• At the command line execute the following. (Again, execute this command on a single line.)

        %BEA_HOME%\jdk150_06\bin\java 
          -classpath %BEA_HOME%\tools\eclipse_3.2.2\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.base_3.2.2.R322_v20061207.jar 
          org.eclipse.help.standalone.Infocenter 
          -command shutdown 
          -eclipsehome %BEA_HOME%\tools\eclipse_3.2.2\eclipse 
          -port 7034
          -noexec

  Note that after you shut down the help server, links in the help browser will be unavailable until you restart the server.