ORACLE PM - cannot handle attribute href - SOAP style encoded

Question

Hello !
The problem is, can ORACLE Process Manager handle href attributes.
I call a webservice with a BPEL-Process, the webservice replys a message, but the Process Manager cannot handle the message from the webservice.
This is the reply message from the webservice, there are many href attributes inside:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<taskFinished soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<taskId href="#id0"/>
<context href="#id1"/>
</taskFinished>
<multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns1:TaskId" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://itsas.de/leasit/workflow/angebot">
<id href="#id2"/>
</multiRef>
<multiRef id="id1" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns2:ProcessContext" xmlns:ns2="http://itsas.de/leasit/workflow/angebot" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<map href="#id3"/>
</multiRef>
<multiRef id="id2" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="xsd:long" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">1181728963963</multiRef>
<multiRef id="id3" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns3:Map" xmlns:ns3="http://itsas.de/leasit/workflow/angebot" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<item href="#id4"/>
<item href="#id5"/>
</multiRef>
<multiRef id="id5" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns4:MapItem" xmlns:ns4="http://itsas.de/leasit/workflow/angebot" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">angebotId</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">LA-0000-0102</value>
</multiRef>
<multiRef id="id4" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns5:MapItem" xmlns:ns5="http://itsas.de/leasit/workflow/angebot" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">kundeId</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">C00002</value>
</multiRef>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
I think the SOAP documentstyle from the webservices use rpc style and encoded, that is why the axis is change the normal XML structure to the structure above with links.
But I think the ORACLE Process Manager can only handle SOAP style="document" and use="literal" ???????
The fault message from ORACLE is:
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<env:Header/>
<env:Body>
<env:Fault xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<faultcode>env:Server</faultcode>
<faultstring>java.lang.NullPointerException</faultstring>
<faultactor></faultactor>
</env:Fault>
</env:Body></env:Envelope>
Can anybody help me, please. Is ORACLE Process Manager able to unterstand SOAP style encoded ?!!!

Answer 1

I have a bug logged against this issue, bug # is 5990259. However, the service I was calling is no longer available, so development can't reproduce it... If you gave them your example as well maybe they could progress this bug? Anyway BPEL does work with RPC/Encoded, it just doesn't like those multi refs. The company we were interacting with was using WebObjects, which was behaving exactly as in your example, and they changed an option on the web service to get rid of the multi refs and it worked (was still RPC/Encoded).