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    Cannot insert null  into table error while starting a process
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    created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/singhjess">jess singh</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/746402#746402">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi all , we are using JBPM 5.3 on Jboss 7.1 with Hibernate 4 and using JBoss's transaciton manager&#160; and seam managed persistence context, when I try to start&#160; a&#160; process I get the following error </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&#160; </span></p><p align="left">08:53:14,876 WARN [org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper] (http-localhost-127.0.0.1-8080-1) SQL Error: 23502, SQLState: 23502</p><p align="left">08:53:14,878 ERROR [org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper] (http-localhost-127.0.0.1-8080-1) NULL not allowed for column "INSTANCEID"; SQL statement:</p><p align="left">insert into ProcessInstanceInfo (InstanceId, id, lastModificationDate, lastReadDate, processId, processInstanceByteArray, startDate, state, OPTLOCK) values (null, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) [23502-161]</p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left">08:53:14,888 ERROR [org.drools.persistence.SingleSessionCommandService] (http-localhost-127.0.0.1-8080-1) Could not commit session: </p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #000080; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #000080; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: underline;">org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><strong style=": ; color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;">&#160; </strong></p><p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p></p><p><span style="color: #0000c0; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><strong>public</strong><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>void</strong></span><p align="left"><div align="left"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;">startProcess() {</span></div></p></p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><span style="color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>try</strong></span><p align="left"><div align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>{</strong></span></div></p></p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><strong>KnowledgeBase kbase = <em>readKnowledgeBase</em>();</strong></p><p align="left"><strong>TransactionManager manager = (TransactionManager) </strong><strong><span style="color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;">new</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> InitialContext().lookup(</span><span style="color: #2a00ff; font-size: 10pt;">"java:jboss/TransactionManager"</span></strong><p align="left"><div align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>);</strong></span></div></p></p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><p align="left"><div align="left"><span style="color: #3f7f5f; font-size: 10pt;"><div align="left"><span style="color: #3f7f5f; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>// create the entity manager factory and register it in the environment</strong></span></div></span></div></p></p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><strong>EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.<em>createEntityManagerFactory</em>( </strong><span style="color: #2a00ff; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>"main"</strong></span><p align="left"><div align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>);</strong></span></div></p></p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><strong>Environment env = KnowledgeBaseFactory.<em>newEnvironment</em>();</strong></p><p align="left"><strong>env.set( EnvironmentName.</strong><em style="color: #0000c0; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="color: #0000c0; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>ENTITY_MANAGER_FACTORY</strong></em></em><p align="left"><div align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>, emf );</strong></span></div></p></p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><p align="left"><div align="left"><span style="color: #3f7f5f; font-size: 10pt;"><div align="left"><span style="color: #3f7f5f; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>//env.set( EnvironmentName.TRANSACTION, getUserTransaction());</strong></span></div></span></div></p></p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left"><strong>env.set(EnvironmentName.</strong><em style="color: #0000c0; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="color: #0000c0; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>GLOBALS</strong></em></em><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;">new</span></strong><p align="left"><div a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