Error deploying BPEL process

Question

Hi,
I am following the SOA Order booking tutorial (chapter 7: Creating the SelectManufacturer Project).
When I try to build the BPEL Process, I get the following error:
Buildfile: C:\Jdev10g\jdev\SOADEMOLAB\SelectManufacturer\build.xml
pre-build:
validateTask:
[echo]
| Validating workflow
[validateTask] Validation of workflow task definitions is completed without errors
compile:
[echo]
| Compiling bpel process SelectManufacturer, revision 1.0
[bpelc] home directory is: C:\Jdev10g\/integration/bpel
[bpelc] loading WSDLs ...
[bpelc] reading partner SelectService's WSDL at C:\Jdev10g\jdev\SOADEMOLAB\SelectManufacturer\bpel\SelectManufacturer.wsdl
[bpelc] done reading wsdl for partner: SelectService
[bpelc] <WSDLSchemaUtil::loadAllSchemas> loading all schemas for def file:/C:/Jdev10g/jdev/SOADEMOLAB/SelectManufacturer/bpel/SelectManufacturer.wsdl
[bpelc] <WSDLSchemaUtil::loadLocalSchemas> Created schema schema
[bpelc] validating "file:/C:/Jdev10g/jdev/SOADEMOLAB/SelectManufacturer/bpel/SelectManufacturer.wsdl" ...
[bpelc] validating "C:\Jdev10g\jdev\SOADEMOLAB\SelectManufacturer\bpel\SelectManufacturer.bpel" ...
[bpelc] <process/> at line 27
[bpelc] <partnerLinks/> at line 47
[bpelc] <partnerLink/> at line 50
[bpelc] <variables/> at line 52
[bpelc] <variable/> at line 54
[bpelc] <variable/> at line 56
[bpelc] <sequence/> at line 58
[bpelc] <receive/> at line 61
[bpelc] <assign/> at line 62
[bpelc] <copy/> at line 63
[bpelc] <from/> at line 64
[bpelc] bpel parsing failed
[bpelc] java.lang.NullPointerException
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.rectifyGetDataFunctionAndAssert(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:994)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.assertGetVariableData(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:1155)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.visit(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:730)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.jaxen.expr.DefaultFunctionCallExpr.accept(DefaultFunctionCallExpr.java:234)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.printLhsRhs(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:435)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.visit(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:465)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.visitExpr(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:312)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.XPathExprValidatorVisitor.assertGeneralExpr(XPathExprValidatorVisitor.java:128)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.AssignValidator.assertGeneralExpression(AssignValidator.java:197)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.AssignValidator.assertGeneralExpression(AssignValidator.java:183)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.AssignValidator.assertFrom(AssignValidator.java:271)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.BpelParser.parseFrom(BpelParser.java:2888)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.BpelParser.startElement(BpelParser.java:640)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractDOMParser.emptyElement(AbstractDOMParser.java:1139)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:312)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1534)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:338)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:827)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:757)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
[bpelc]      at org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:186)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.BpelParser.parse(BpelParser.java:401)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.BPELValidator.validate(BPELValidator.java:138)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.bpel.BPELValidator.validateClientSide(BPELValidator.java:80)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.CubeProcessor.validateClientSide(CubeProcessor.java:1130)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.CubeProcessor.transformClientSide(CubeProcessor.java:449)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.CubeParserHelper.compileClientSide(CubeParserHelper.java:83)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.ant.taskdefs.Bpelc.execute(Bpelc.java:626)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1185)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:40)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1068)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.AntLauncher.launch(AntLauncher.java:321)
[bpelc]      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[bpelc]      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
[bpelc]      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
[bpelc]      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.InProcessAntStarter.runAnt(InProcessAntStarter.java:295)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.InProcessAntStarter.mav$runAnt(InProcessAntStarter.java:43)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.InProcessAntStarter$1.run(InProcessAntStarter.java:71)
[bpelc] ORABPEL-01021
[bpelc]
[bpelc] BPEL validation failed.
[bpelc] BPEL source validation failed, the errors are:
[bpelc]
[bpelc] [Error ORABPEL-10902]: compilation failed
[bpelc] [Description]: in "C:\Jdev10g\jdev\SOADEMOLAB\SelectManufacturer\bpel\SelectManufacturer.bpel", XML parsing failed because "".
[bpelc] [Potential fix]: n/a.
[bpelc] .
[bpelc]
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.CubeProcessor.validateClientSide(CubeProcessor.java:1133)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.CubeProcessor.transformClientSide(CubeProcessor.java:449)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.lang.compiler.CubeParserHelper.compileClientSide(CubeParserHelper.java:83)
[bpelc]      at com.collaxa.cube.ant.taskdefs.Bpelc.execute(Bpelc.java:626)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1185)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:40)
[bpelc]      at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1068)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.AntLauncher.launch(AntLauncher.java:321)
[bpelc]      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[bpelc]      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
[bpelc]      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
[bpelc]      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.InProcessAntStarter.runAnt(InProcessAntStarter.java:295)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.InProcessAntStarter.mav$runAnt(InProcessAntStarter.java:43)
[bpelc]      at oracle.jdevimpl.ant.runner.InProcessAntStarter$1.run(InProcessAntStarter.java:71)
[bpelc] BPEL validation failed.
[bpelc] BPEL source validation failed, the errors are:
[bpelc]
[bpelc] [Error ORABPEL-10902]: compilation failed
[bpelc] [Description]: in "C:\Jdev10g\jdev\SOADEMOLAB\SelectManufacturer\bpel\SelectManufacturer.bpel", XML parsing failed because "".
[bpelc] [Potential fix]: n/a.
[bpelc] .
[bpelc]
BUILD FAILED
C:\Jdev10g\jdev\SOADEMOLAB\SelectManufacturer\build.xml:61: Validation error
Total time: 6 seconds
Any clue how to fix it?
<target name="compile">
<echo>
| Compiling bpel process ${process.name}, revision ${rev}
</echo>
<bpelc input="${process.dir}/bpel/bpel.xml" out="${process.dir}/output" rev="${rev}" home="${bpel.home}" />
</target>
This is the segment corresponding to line 61 in build.xml.
Thanks,
Ashish

Answer 1

Hi,
Yes, this is the first time I am using ANT for deployment. This is the content of ant-orabel.properties
## ant-orabpel.properties contains commonly used installation and appserver ##
## specific properties. They contains replace tokens, which gets replaced by ##
## appropriate values during installation ##
## VERIFY THAT THESE PROPERTIES MATCHES YOUR ENVIRONMENT ##
##### Properties for used for process deployment #####
# Which is app server going to use on this machine?
platform = ias_10g
# hostname, http.port must match with values for http url for BPEL engine, i.e.
# property soapServerUrl defined in collaxa-config.xml
hostname = Ashish
http.hostname = ${hostname}
http.port = 8888
# For BPEL in cluster environemnt, j2ee.hostname may not be same as
# http.hostname, where j2ee.hostname will be local hostname,
# while http.hostname will be virtual hostname
# For deployment of applications in oc4j cluster, set cluster = true
# and oc4jinstancename to opmn cluster group it belongs to such as
# default_group.
cluster = false
oc4jinstancename = home
j2ee.hostname = Ashish
# rmi.port or opmn.requestport is used in jndi.url/deployment-url in
# standalone or midtier installation respectively.
# rmi.port value below is default value as in BPEL standalone-developer install.
# If you rely on this value, make sure it's correct for your installation
# as from command "opmnctl status -l" output in midtier/SOA install.
rmi.port = 23791
opmn.requestport = 6003
# make sure admin.user, admin.password is correct for [PLATFORM] appserver
admin.user = oc4jadmin
admin.password = welcome1
# DONOT use jndi.user, jndi.password as they will get deprecated
jndi.user = ${admin.user}
jndi.password = ${admin.password}
asinstancename =
# default domain and bpel process revision for deployment
domain = default
rev = 1.0
# Set verbose to true if you want to see verbose output from deployment tasks
verbose = false
##### End of Properties for used for process deployment #####
# Where the j2ee applications can be deployed, this environment variable
# is application server dependent. The process developers will use this
# this env. variable to deploy their J2EE applications
# (e.g. .war or .ear files)
apps = C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/j2ee/home/applications
# default-web-app.dir is directory pointing to url http://http.host:http.port/
default-web-app.dir = C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/j2ee/home/applications/../default-web-app
##### Properties for used for process testing #####
bpeltest.minCoverage = 100%
bpeltest.timeout = 90
bpeltest.numWorkers = 1
bpeltest.package =
bpeltest.results.dir = ${default-web-app.dir}${file.separator}results
##### End of Properties for used for process testing #####
# Oracle BPEL Version and Build info as also reported by obversion[.sh] command
bpel.version = 10.1.3.1.0
bpel.build = PCBPEL_10.1.3.1.0_GENERIC_061009.0802
# Where has Orabpel been installed on this machine?
bpel.home = C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel
# oracle.home is useful for ias/midtier
oracle.home = C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/..
# ias_10g appserver specific j2ee.home
j2ee.home = C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home
# ias_10g appserver specific jndi.url
jndi.url = opmn:ormi://Ashish:6003:home
# ias_10g appserver specific jndi.InitialContextFactory
jndi.InitialContextFactory = com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory
soapServerUrl = http://${hostname}:${http.port}
# Properties for ORABPEL dehydration store's DB connection as supplied during
# installation of BPEL in midtier or SOA installation i.e. these would not
# be set in case of standalone developer installation.
orabpel.db.user = [DB_USERNAME]
orabpel.db.password = [DB_PASSWORD]
orabpel.db.connect_string = [DB_CONNECT_STRING]
# [platform] appserver specific client.classpath
client.classpath = C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/oc4jclient.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/../../lib/xml.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/rmic.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/../../lib/dms.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/oc4j.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/lib/jmxri.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/lib/javax77.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/../j2ee/home/admin_client.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/lib/orabpel.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/lib/orabpel-common.jar;C:/SOASuite10g/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/bpel/lib/orabpel-thirdparty.jar
# END OF FILE