How to install source/javadoc for Eclipse PDE?

Question

I have installed Plugin Development Environment on my Eclipse 3.8 via http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno update site. Now in PDE projects under the "Plugin Dependencies" tree I see that all PDE JARs have attached source set to the same JARs. Yet, the JARs do not contain any sources - only class files.

Because of this I see no Javadoc for PDE/JFace classes and get ugly arg0, arg1, etc for auto-generated code.

Where and how can I get sources or Javadoc for PDE/JFace?

Answer 1

First, I tried to reproduce your problem.

• downloaded Eclipse Platform Runtime Binary from the location you provided
• installed Plugin Development Tools -> Neither source nor Javadocs

Now, the following worked for me:

• Help -> Install new Software
• Work with 'The Eclipse Project Updates' (not the Juno main site!)
• installed 'Eclipse RCP Plugin Developer Resources'

This gave me sources and Javadocs for all the Plugin Dependencies in a newly created 'Hello World' Plugin Project. The size of the Eclipse installation increase by only 10 MB to a total of 116 MB.

Answer 2

Thank you tobias_k,

This works great but further to this I had also to install these resources to get IFolder javadoc for instance :

• Eclipse Platform SDK
• PDE/API Tools Envirnement Descriptions

Which was not installed in my Eclipse distribution. Hope this helps someone !