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Bug 82936

Summary: Javadoc popups for J2SE associated by adding J2SE source but not the J2SE javadoc?
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Austin Tam <austintam>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Austin Tam CLA 2005-01-16 22:31:29 EST 
To obtain javadoc popups for J2SE API, I found that I had to associate the J2SE
source (i.e. attach the source found in the JDK to rt.jar).

However, one would assume that associatiation of the J2SE javadocs can be done
via the JRE properties.
ie.
In preferences, Java->installed JRE, 
select a JRE entry and point the javadoc URL to the J2SE javadocs, either the
web location or to a local copy.

Hence, I believe the javadoc URL property is misleading since it doesn't provide
the in-Eclipse javadoc popups. It does allow the view in external browser option
to work though.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2005-01-17 04:07:22 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69623 ***