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For future Eclipse versions: the solution is documented in the help in the "Platform Plug-in Developer Guide" / "Programmer's Guide" / "User assistance support" / "Help" / "Deploying the information center as a Web Archive" section (this is only available in your Eclipse IDE if you've installed the "Eclipse Platform SDK" component).

Essentially you've to unpack a JAR, download some extra component (another JAR) and build a WAR file using Eclipse. Then this WAR can be deployed to any application server, eg. a Tomcat and you've got a local copy of the Eclipse help center.

If code completion does not work for you for flash.* packages in Flex Builder, chances are high that you use an old Flex Builder versions (eg. v3) and you try to use a recent (v3.5.0 or newer) Flex SDK. The reason for your problem is that old Flex Builder versions use the SDK/frameworks/libs/player/playerglobal.swc file for basic flash.* package code completion, regardless of the target Flash Player version you've set in your project. However SDK 3.5 and newer contain multiple playerglobal.swc files in Flash Player version specific subdirectories. Eg. SDK 3.5.0 has a SDK/frameworks/libs/player/9/playerglobal.swc and a SDK/frameworks/libs/player/10/playerglobal.swc. To fix this you've two options ...

It took me a few minutes to find so it might be useful for others if I share. There are indeed pre-packaged source bundles for every Eclipse release available and theoretically you should be able to compile your own eclipse build fairly easily.