Eclipse now provides a dynamic help view where you can find context-sensitive help and related topics for any active area in the development environment. By clicking the question mark icon on a dialog box or wizard, or by pressing a platform-specific trigger key on the keyboard in any context, you can open the Help view.
This new view gives you a way to navigate and search the help topics even when you are in a modal dialog box or wizard by presenting the Help view in an attached fly-out pane. You can see context-sensitive help and related topics links, as well as read all the help topics while you are completing the current task.
Although the yellow infopops supported in previous versions of the product are still available, seeing the information in context along with search and index options allows you better access to the information you need when you need it.
Now you have a fast and easy way to search virtually all of the user assistance included in the product to find exactly the type of information you need at any time.
Open the search pane of the Help view by clicking Help > Search or by clicking the Search icon at the bottom of the Help view. From here you can run one centralized search of the help topics, the welcome pages, and the Tutorials and Samples galleries to find conceptual information, detailed help topics, or tutorials and samples to help you to understand and use product features.
You can set the dynamic search to return Web hits from sites such as eclipse.org and developerWorks.
Product help topics are now fully indexed. Open the new index tab in the Help window and scroll to find topics, or start typing in the top field to have the index automatically locate the term you want. Simililarly, in the help view, click the index icon at the bottom of the view to open the index pane.
In addition to the Watch and Learn and Do and Learn tutorial types that you used to help you get started in earlier releases, you can now find direct feeds of tutorials from IBM developerWorks in the Tutorials Gallery. Another addition to the Tutorials Gallery is the Tours section where you will find a broad range of conceptual tours.
In addition to the technology and application samples you have become familiar with, you now have direct feeds of samples from IBM developerWorks into the Samples Gallery. Look in the developerWorks samples section of the gallery table of contents.
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds provide dynamic links to the latest product and technology white papers and other new postings on IBM developerWorks. Check for RSS feeds on the Web Resources page of the welcome.