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    Event Listener Problem
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/dev.katiyar">devendra katiyar</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/569802#569802">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I am implement Log Event Listener using example given in user guide</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><pre class="programlisting"><a class="jive-link-anchor-small">&lt;process name="EventListener" xmlns="http://jbpm.org/4.4/jpdl"&gt;<br/><br/>&#160; &lt;on event="start"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;event-listener class="org.jbpm.examples.eventlistener.LogListener"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;field name="msg"&gt;&lt;string value="start on process definition"/&gt;&lt;/field&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/event-listener&gt;<br/>&#160; &lt;/on&gt;<br/><br/>&#160; &lt;start&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;transition to="wait"/&gt;<br/>&#160; &lt;/start&gt;<br/><br/>&#160; &lt;state name="wait"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;on event="start"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;event-listener class="org.jbpm.examples.eventlistener.LogListener"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;field name="msg"&gt;&lt;string value="start on activity wait"/&gt;&lt;/field&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/event-listener&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/on&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;on event="end"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;event-listener class="org.jbpm.examples.eventlistener.LogListener"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;field name="msg"&gt;&lt;string value="end on activity wait"/&gt;&lt;/field&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/event-listener&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/on&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;transition to="park"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;event-listener class="org.jbpm.examples.eventlistener.LogListener"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;field name="msg"&gt;&lt;string value="take transition"/&gt;&lt;/field&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/event-listener&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/transition&gt;<br/>&#160; &lt;/state&gt;<br/><br/>&#160; &lt;state name="park"/&gt;<br/><br/>&lt;/process&gt;<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>and LogListener class like below <br/><br/><br/><pre class="programlisting"><a class="jive-link-anchor-small">public class <strong>LogListener</strong> implements EventListener {<br/><br/>&#160; // value gets injected from process definition<br/>&#160; String msg;<br/><br/>&#160; public void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) {<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; List&lt;String&gt; logs = (List&lt;String&gt;) execution.getVariable("logs");<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; if (logs==null) {<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; logs = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; execution.setVariable("logs", logs);<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; }<br/><br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; logs.add(msg);<br/><br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; execution.setVariable("logs", logs);<br/>&#160; }<br/>}</a></pre>
<br/><br/><br/>but when I am testing using Junit <br/><br/>
<pre class="programlisting"><a class="jive-link-anchor-small">ProcessInstance processInstance = executionService.startProcessInstanceByKey("EventListener");</a></pre>
</a></pre><p>In above line getting Nullpointer Exception?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>can any one help regards this , or any other reference to implement Event Listener in jbpm4</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thanks all</p></div>

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