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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/joris.dewinne">Joris De Winne</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/556628#556628">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I'm having an issue with one specific process deploying it on an oracle db. In total I've around 20 business process definitions. When the one specific process is included, I can not start any process execution. Not even an execution that has nothing to do with it. Also when going to the jBPM console I can not see the process definitions.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>My configuration:</p><p>- jBPM 4.3</p><p>- Oracle driver: 10.2.0.1.0</p><p>- Using the ant task to deploy: org.jbpm.pvm.internal.ant.JbpmDeployTask</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>The process definition that is giving the problems:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-xml">
<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;</span>

<span class="jive-xml-tag"><span>&lt;process xmlns="</span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://jbpm.org/4.0/jpdl" target="_blank">http://jbpm.org/4.0/jpdl</a><span>" name="notifySigningFinished"&gt;</span></span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;start name="start1" g="21,233,48,48"&gt;</span><span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition to="getBundle"/&gt;</span><span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/start&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-comment">&lt;!-- Check if bundle is both signed --&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;java ejb-jndi-name="SignatureProcessBean/local" method="getBundle" name="getBundle" var="bundle" g="200,162,92,48"&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;arg&gt;</span><span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;object expr="#{bundleId}"/&gt;</span><span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/arg&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition to="isSigned" g="-39,-21"/&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/java&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;decision name="isSigned" g="316,162,48,48"&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition name="to bundle is signed" to="fetchBundleInfo" g="-128,-22"&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;condition expr="#{bundle.signStatus eq 'BOTH_SIGNED'}" /&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/transition&gt;</span> 

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition name="to end" to="end" g="-3,-22"/&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/decision&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;java ejb-jndi-name="SignatureProcessBean/local" g="516,162,92,48" method="getBundleInfo" name="fetchBundleInfo" var="bundleInfo"&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;arg&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;object expr="#{bundleId}"/&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/arg&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition to="fetchMailToList"/&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/java&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;java ejb-jndi-name="SignatureProcessBean/local" g="650,162,92,48" method="getMailToAPLList" name="fetchMailToList" var="mailToAPLList"&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition to="bundle is signed"/&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/java&gt;</span> 

&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;state name="bundle is signed" g="650,265,48,48"&gt;</span>

&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition name="end" to="end" /&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition name="timeout" to="sendBundleSignedNotification"&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;timer duedate="1 business seconds" /&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/transition&gt;</span> 

&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/state&gt;</span>

&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;sub-process g="750,265,92,52" name="sendBundleSignedNotification" sub-process-key="sendBundleSignedMail"&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;parameter-in subvar="mailToAPLList" var="mailToAPLList"/&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;parameter-in subvar="bundleInfo" var="bundleInfo"/&gt;</span>

<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;transition to="end"/&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/sub-process&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;end name="end" /&gt;</span>

<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/process&gt;</span>


</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>The exception I'm getting when starting a process execution:</p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code">2010-08-09 18:16:04,465 INFO&#160; [org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.DefaultCommandService] (EJB-Timer-1281101023833[target=jboss.j2ee:ear=***REMOVED***,name=***REMOVED***]) exception while executing command org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cmd.StartProcessInstanceInLatestCmd@51c50bce
java.lang.NullPointerException
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at java.io.ByteArrayInputStream.&lt;init&gt;(ByteArrayInputStream.java:89)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.repository.ProcessDeployer.deploy(ProcessDeployer.java:63)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.repository.DeployerManager.deploy(DeployerManager.java:46)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.repository.RepositorySessionImpl.getObject(RepositorySessionImpl.java:129)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.query.ProcessDefinitionQueryImpl.execute(ProcessDefinitionQueryImpl.java:72)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.query.AbstractQuery.untypedList(AbstractQuery.java:71)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.query.AbstractQuery.untypedUniqueResult(AbstractQuery.java:75)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.query.ProcessDefinitionQueryImpl.uniqueResult(ProcessDefinitionQueryImpl.java:145)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.repository.RepositorySessionImpl.findProcessDefinitionByKey(RepositorySessionImpl.java:153)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cmd.StartProcessInstanceInLatestCmd.execute(StartProcessInstanceInLatestCmd.java:58)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cmd.StartProcessInstanceInLatestCmd.execute(StartProcessInstanceInLatestCmd.java:38)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.DefaultCommandService.execute(DefaultCommandService.java:42)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.tx.JtaTransactionInterceptor.executeInExistingTx(JtaTransactionInterceptor.java:70)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.tx.JtaTransactionInterceptor.execute(JtaTransactionInterceptor.java:55)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.tx.JtaRetryInterceptor.executeWithoutRetry(JtaRetryInterceptor.java:56)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.tx.JtaRetryInterceptor.execute(JtaRetryInterceptor.java:48)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.EnvironmentInterceptor.executeInNewEnvironment(EnvironmentInterceptor.java:53)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.EnvironmentInterceptor.execute(EnvironmentInterceptor.java:40)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.SkipInterceptor.execute(SkipInterceptor.java:43)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jbpm.pvm.internal.svc.ExecutionServiceImpl.startProcessInstanceByKey(ExecutionServiceImpl.java:66)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at be.cirb.business.beans.upload.TriggerProcessFilesImpl.timeout(TriggerProcessFilesImpl.java:39)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor487.invoke(Unknown Source)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeTarget(MethodInvocation.java:122)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:111)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainerInvocationWrapper.invokeNext(EJBContainerInvocationWrapper.java:69)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.aop.InvocationContextInterceptor$InvocationContext.proceed(InvocationContextInterceptor.java:138)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.seam.intercept.EJBInvocationContext.proceed(EJBInvocationContext.java:44)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.seam.intercept.RootInterceptor.invoke(RootInterceptor.java:101)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SessionBeanInterceptor.aroundInvoke(SessionBeanInterceptor.java:50)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor395.invoke(Unknown Source)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.aop.EJB3InterceptorInterceptor.invoke(EJB3InterceptorInterceptor.java:83)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.aop.EJB3InterceptorInterceptor.invoke(EJB3InterceptorInterceptor.java:70)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainerInvocationWrapper.invokeNext(EJBContainerInvocationWrapper.java:59)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.aop.InterceptorSequencer.invoke(InterceptorSequencer.java:76)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.aop.InterceptorSequencer.aroundInvoke(InterceptorSequencer.java:62)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor394.invoke(Unknown Source)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>When deploying it on a local mySQL, I've no problems.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Some additional remarks: I've had similar problems with oracle in the past (deploying jBPM business processes). I could fix them by removing all xml comments from the jpdl files and also any DOS line feeds. When doing a google search on this issue, I can find one related post (<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jboss.user/293637">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jboss.user/293637</a>), but I can not find back that message in the user forums, so no idea if there's a solution for this.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Joris</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p></div>

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