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Bug 337073

Summary:	4.1 no longer included "o.e.help.appserver"
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	David Williams <david_williams>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	aniefer, cgold, john.arthorne, pwebster, remy.suen
Version:	4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description David Williams

2011-02-13 12:22:19 EST

I'm sure this is not exactly a "help component" problem (maybe releng?) but was not sure where to document it. But ... 

I have started to restored our WTP builds against Eclipse 4.1 (just to check compilation and build-time compatibility) and noticed we got one failure because org.eclipse.help.appserver was no longer "in the stack". We are tracking that in bug 337071. At the moment, I am not sure if that is a "hard" requirement. The function definitely needs to run on some app server ... but, not sure how it is invoked, or if it can be accessed in a more "optional" fashion and thus solve the problem with some sort of optional 'packaging'. 

But ... I figured the "4.1 team" would want to know about one potentially problematic area. Not sure if there is some way you can solve this via some "compatibility" bundle ... but, I figure if we in WTP were assuming that the "internal app server" was there ... that others might be too? .... so, just wanted to enter this bug so you'd know about it.

Comment 1 Paul Webster

2011-02-13 18:55:24 EST

I know we removed all compatibility or optional bundles that we could.  John, does this one ring a bell that we deliberately removed it?

PW

Comment 2 Andrew Niefer

2011-02-14 10:43:50 EST

help.appserver was removed deliberately as bug 216322

Comment 3 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-02-14 11:47:24 EST

org.eclipse.help.appserver is no longer used by the help system, it was used when the help system used Tomcat as the Web server. It should be safe to delete it from your dependencies.

Comment 4 David Williams

2011-02-14 13:05:44 EST

Not sure if this is better closed as "invalid" or "worksforme" ... but, I pick "worksforme" since it did take a change on our end. We did, apparently, just have some old code hanging around that required it ... but, that code wasn't used, so easy to remove the few lines of code, and the dependency with no loss of function ... so, it "worksforme" not being there in 4.1. 

Thanks everyone for your comments, history, and explanations. Very helpful.