Provides access to stand alone help system.  Classes in this package are not supposed to be called by Eclipse plugins, they are intended to be called from outside of Eclipse environment.

Package Specification

The help system in Eclipse can be used by other products.  Access to this help system is provided through org.eclipse.help.standalone.Help class.

This Help class should be placed on the application class path, and methods of the Help class provide means or launching help.  There is a general mechanism (defined at the plug-in level) by which individual plug-ins contribute online help and context-sensitive help for their component. This Eclipse mechanism for contributing help content need to be used.  The stand alone help system is responsible for accessing this information and displaying it to the user.

The use of the stand-alone help system involves: