jbpm should not go off when resource.hibernate.properties points to inexistent resource --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBPM-630 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-630 Project: JBoss jBPM Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Core Engine Affects Versions: jBPM 3.1 Reporter: Alejandro Guizar Assigned To: Alejandro Guizar Fix For: jBPM 3.1.1 When running the testsuite against multiple databases, the ability to override the default database connection properties in hibernate.cfg.xml with database-specific settings in a separate hibernate.properties file is convenient. All DB test cases use the jbpm config file src/java.jbpm.test/org/jbpm/jbpm.test.cfg.xml as per the hard-coded resource path in AbstractDbTestCase. The setting resource.hibernate.properties has to be uncommented for the above to work. This update must be committed so that the change does not need to be manually applied every time QA runs cruisecontrol. However, it has not been committed because doing so causes the local tests (which do not require overriding any settings) to fail with: org.jbpm.JbpmException: couldn't load hibernate properties from unexisting resource 'hibernate.properties' at org.jbpm.db.hibernate.HibernateHelper.loadPropertiesFromResource(HibernateHelper.java:171) at org.jbpm.db.hibernate.HibernateHelper.createConfiguration(HibernateHelper.java:100) at org.jbpm.persistence.db.DbPersistenceServiceFactory.getConfiguration(DbPersistenceServiceFactory.java:68) at org.jbpm.persistence.db.DbPersistenceServiceFactory.getSchemaExport(DbPersistenceServiceFactory.java:76) at org.jbpm.persistence.db.DbPersistenceServiceFactory.createSchema(DbPersistenceServiceFactory.java:107) at org.jbpm.JbpmConfiguration.createSchema(JbpmConfiguration.java:383) at org.jbpm.JbpmConfiguration.createSchema(JbpmConfiguration.java:375) at org.jbpm.db.AbstractDbTestCase.createSchema(AbstractDbTestCase.java:121) at org.jbpm.db.AbstractDbTestCase.setUp(AbstractDbTestCase.java:55) [...] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:61) at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:80) at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:266) at org.jbpm.db.hibernate.HibernateHelper.loadPropertiesFromResource(HibernateHelper.java:168) ... 22 more I understand you want to enforce that the properties resource exists when you explicitly reference it from jbpm.cfg.xml, but this doesn't help QA. Here are the alternatives I can think of: a) Log a warning when the referenced resource does not exist, but do not throw an exception. b) Remove the hard-coded resource path in AbstractDbTestCase, so that QA can use an alternate jbpm.cfg.xml file c) Any other alternative?