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The dynamic invocation of a BPEL for IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) throws a NullPointerException

Troubleshooting


Problem

The dynamic invocation of a BPEL using Service Component Architecture (SCA) bindings results in a NullPointerException. This exception might be seen in cluster environments and when using dynamic one-way invocation. The same scenarios with two-way dyanamic invocation works correctly.

Symptom

The corresponding BPEL invoke activity is stopped. The SCA traces contain a NullPointerException as shown in the following example:

[3/3/14 13:13:13:701 GMT] 00000013 Core          Z com.ibm.ws.sca.internal.async.binding.handler.AsyncImportBindingHandler com.ibm.ws.sca.internal.async.binding.handler.AsyncImportBindingHandlerprocessMessage#001 Exception:
                                 java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.ibm.ws.container.binding.sca.DefaultBindingManagerImpl.<init>(DefaultBindingManagerImpl.java:92)
at com.ibm.wsspi.container.binding.sca.DefaultBindingManager.newInstance(DefaultBindingManager.java:39)
at com.ibm.ws.sca.internal.async.binding.handler.AsyncImportBindingHandler.processMessage(AsyncImportBindingHandler.java:147)
at com.ibm.ws.sca.internal.message.impl.MessageDispatcherImpl.processMessage(MessageDispatcherImpl.java:1775)
at com.ibm.ws.sca.internal.message.impl.ManagedMessageImpl.process(ManagedMessageImpl.java:990)
at com.ibm.ws.sca.uow.handler.UOWNativeWASStrategyImpl.transactionImportExport(UOWNativeWASStrategyImpl.java:442)
at com.ibm.ws.sca.uow.handler.JoinUOWNativeHandler.processMessage(JoinUOWNativeHandler.java:168)
at com.ibm.ws.sca.internal.message.impl.MessageDispatcherImpl.processMessage(MessageDispatcherImpl.java:1775)
...
...
...
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.ibm.ws.container.binding.sca.DefaultBindingManagerImpl.<init>(DefaultBindingManagerImpl.java:89)
... 79 more

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Modified date:
28 April 2025

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