Why does eclipse-platform depend on tomcat?

[Christoph Höger]

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Hi,

just wondering why eclipse should need an application server...

regards

chrsitoph
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[Andrew Overholt]

* Christoph Höger <choeger(a)cs.tu-berlin.de&gt; [2007-11-28 15:00]:
>  
>  just wondering why eclipse should need an application server... 
It's used for the help system.  Technically in 3.3.x, jetty is used, but
I didn't want to deviate from upstream's SDK by not keeping tomcat in
there (plus, there may be 3rd part plugins that depend upon it and I
didn't want them to work with an upstream download and not with our
RPMs).  FWIW, I dont' think it'll be in 3.4.  Also note that the help
system is actually broken and I've got a fix coming as part of the
3.3.1.1 update.  It's in rawhide now.

Andrew