Internal extension point to plug in an application server for help and other eclipse plugins.
The contributors to this extension point must implement the org.eclipse.help.appserver.internal.IWebappServer interface.
When set to true, this is the default application server. Normally, only the platform contributed default implementation should set this attribute to true.
The following is a sample usage of the server extension point:
<p>
<samp>
<extension id="appserver" name="Tomcat" point="org.eclipse.help.appserver.server">
<br> <server class="org.eclipse.tomcat.internal.TomcatAppServer" default="true" />
<br> </extension>
</samp>
</p>
The supplied class must implement the
<tt>org.eclipse.help.internal.appserver.IWebappServer</tt>
interface. Methods in that interface control starting and stopping of the application server,
as well as starting and stopping of a web application.
Web applications must have direct access to classes loaded by the customized class loader passed in when starting the web application.
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In addition to this, all the web applications running under the provided application server must have access to the Jasper 1 JSP Engine runtime. These libraries are currently shipped with Tomcat 4.0.x drivers (http://jakarta.apache.org).
</p>
The Eclipse Platform provides an implementation of this extension point using the Apache Tomcat
application server.
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