Hi all, this is not an issue subject! It's a problem solved. I'm working with Neatbeans with the extensions to write BPEL processes. My choice was targeted by my personal love for Netbeans. I just found myself against a problem trying to deploy a process needing activity as scope and while. The exception was: RROR [ProblemHandler] SportelloUnico.bpel could not read process document java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.util.XmlUtil.getAttribute(XmlUtil.java:269) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.BpelReader.readExpression(BpelReader.java:463) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.BpelReader.readExpression(BpelReader.java:445) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.WhileReader.readSpecificProperties(WhileReader.java:40) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.ActivityReader.read(ActivityReader.java:54) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.BpelReader.readActivity(BpelReader.java:1178) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.SequenceReader.readSpecificProperties(SequenceReader.java:41) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.ActivityReader.read(ActivityReader.java:54) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.BpelReader.readActivity(BpelReader.java:1178) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.BpelReader.readScope(BpelReader.java:540) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.BpelReader.read(BpelReader.java:251) at org.jbpm.bpel.xml.BpelReader.read(BpelReader.java:200) at org.jbpm.bpel.par.BpelArchiveParser.readFromArchive(BpelArchiveParser.java:48) ... I knew for previous error that this was caused by missing namespace and things like that. So I moved to atm example and added this namespace to my process' one. xmlns:bpel="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/&... But that was NOT enough. I had to explicitly used that namespace, by typing commands like <bpel:while name="whileScope" condition="whileCond"> </bpel:while> and now your process is whie-enable. Enjoy! I hope I was of nome help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4087256#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...