[wtp-pmc] Critical Web services bug 161250 needed in WTP 1.5.2

[Chris Brealey <cbrealey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

PMC,
a bug we found recently in WTP 1.5.2
has turned out to be much worse, 161250. The bug causes the Web service
wizard to throw an exception while checking for the existence and currency
of "webserviceutils.jar" in a Web project to which Web service
sample JSPs are about to be generated. It occurs whenever spaces are involved
in the installation path of the platform. It occurs at the point we try
to construct a java.net.URI from a file: URL string that has non-encoded
spaces (ie. " " instead of "%20").

This is a regression, and while I try
to figure out why we have not found this before, is one I consider stop-ship
for the release. We are in the process of writing a simple patch since
the root problem is quite basic in nature, but I wanted to get this bug
on the PMC's radar right away in the hope of pre-starting the voting process.
I'll post to wtp-dev & wtp-pmc again once we have the patch applied
to the bug and extremely well tested.

Sorry for the 11th hour alarm, and thanks
for your support.
Cheers - CB.

Chris Brealey
Senior Advisory Technical Manager, Rational Java Web Services, IBM Canada
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