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Bug 37698

Summary:	[plan item] Support HTML help pages in archives
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	Konrad Kolosowski <konradk>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	plan
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	3.0 M1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Jim des Rivieres

2003-05-15 11:23:58 EDT

Support HTML help pages in archives. A JAR or zip file is a convenient way to 
keep the large number of HTML files of a Javadoc web together. The Eclipse 
help system should also plug-ins to contribute (and refer to) HTML pages 
located in archives. [Platform Help]

Comment 1 Konrad Kolosowski

2003-06-02 11:49:04 EDT

Help already supports documentation being zipped in doc.zip archive file.  The 
real problem was viewing Javadocs present in an arbitrary zip or jar, not 
formally contributed to the platform, and possibly outside of plugins 
directory.  Help had no API or support for viewing these files.

I have added support for extracting contents from archives, and enabled IHelp 
APIs to handle help resources specifying jar protocol as and resource href.
See discussion in bug 25810 and Javadoc for IHelpResource to read the details.