A Tip for Running Apache Server on Windows 7

You must run htpasswd as 'Administrator'.

This is also required for Apache-based derivitives like the IBM HTTP Server.

Shipping API Jars Without The Associated JavaDoc: An Antipattern

I just tried out the RSA 8.0.2 release and tried to create a new SCA Project. To my surprise, I was missing any and all documentation for the org.osoa.sca* packages. What's the point of including SCA support if you don't include the corresponding JavaDoc?

Here is the solution:

1. Highlight one of the imports
2. Control-click / press f3 to go to the declaration
3. Click 'Link with Editor' on the Package Explorer view
4. Right-click->Properties / press Alt+Enter on the parent jar (org.apache.tuscany.sca.api.jar)
5. Select 'Javadoc Location'
6. Set the Javadoc URL to http://tuscany.apache.org/doc/javadoc/java-sca-1.6.1/sca-api/
7. Validate the location to be sure you didn't accidentally include index.html at the end (which I always screw up)

Possible Eclipse Bug

Wondering if this is an Eclipse Bug or not...

When I try using the @org.osoa.sca.annotations.Service annotation on my class, I get a compile error because the package is not imported on my project.

Hovering over the attribute gives me long list of Service classes:

• javax.xml.ws.Service
• com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Service
• javax.mail.Service
• ...

and the following message:

"Attribute information for this '@Service' instance:

Unspecified attributes:

interfaces, value"

What does that even mean?
What's odd is that Ctrl+1 gives me the proper quickfix: to import org.osoa.sca.annotations.Service.

Whats really odd is that, now that the Service annotation class is resolved and the error is gone, hovering over it still gives me the original message!