Toolkit for Custom and Reusable Solution Information

1. What kinds of reusable resources are supported?

The supported resources that can be built into an information center are as follows:

• Eclipse Help System document plug-ins
• Web pages
• Feeds (including RSS 0.90, RSS 0.91 Netscape, RSS 0.91 Userland, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0)
• Files of any type
• Lotus Notes® DXL

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2. Where do I get resuable documents in the format of Eclipse Help System plug-ins?

You can get the documents from Eclipse update sites where document plug-ins are hosted. You can also directly contact the writers in your organization or responsible contacts from IBM® in order to obtain copies of document plug-ins for existing products.

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3. How do I deploy the solution information center created by the toolkit?

The information center created by the Toolkit is a customized version of the IBM User Interface Help System Built on Eclipse, another alphaWorks technology. (Please follow the link for details about its usage and deployment.)

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4. Do I need Java™ on my workstation in order to run the toolkit?

The toolkit runs on the IBM JRE (Java Run-time Environment) 1.5 that is shipped with the build, which is in the "jvm" folder in the extracted package. You need not install Java manually before running the toolkit.

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5. Can I run the toolkit with other versions of Java?

We ship the JVM (Java virtual machine) in order to ensure that the toolkit runs well, as tested. The toolkit was developed and tested on IBM JRE 1.5 only, and we can""t guarentee that it would run without errors on other versions of Java.

If you do want to use your system""s JVM, you can delete the file bigeasy.ini under the folder bigeasy from the extracted folders. A warning message will be shown when you start the toolkit with a non-default JVM, and you might experience unexpected errors using the toolkit.

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