Note: The help system is still under development and can be expected to change somewhat before reaching stability. It is being made available at this stage to solicit feedback from early adopters, on the understanding that the details of the contribution mechanisms might change in breaking ways.

Help System

The Help System plug-in, org.eclipse.help, defines two extension points ("contributions" and "contexts") which allow individual plug-ins to contribute online help and context-sensitive help for their components. A typical plug-in would make use of these extension points.

For more advanced applications, there is also an extension point  ("support") for plugging in a a help system UI.


Extension Points

The following extension points can be used to extend the help system:


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