JR55897: A NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION OCCURS WHEN YOU TRY TO PROCESS A PROCESS APPLICATION'S ADVANCED PROJECTS

8.5.6.2-WS-BPM-IFJR55897
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Downloading IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.7 Cumulative Fix 2016.09

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When a basic Eclipse project is associated with a process
  application and the project has an empty list of properties that
   describe the project type and function, a null pointer
  exception (NPE) occurs when you try to process the process app
  advanced projects.
  
  Usually, it's fine to associate any project type with a process
  app or toolkit, but in this case it appears as other process app
  although project changes occurred.
  
  The root cause of this error might be that empty properties are
  not always allowed on IBM Process Center.
  
  This issue happens only when you use Oracle as the database
  because an empty property string converts to null.
  
  PRODUCTS AFFECTED
  IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced with Oracle DB
  

Local fix

• If the project causing the problem is not needed, disassociate
  it from the process app.
  

Problem summary

• No additional information is available.
  

Problem conclusion

• A fix is available that checks for null properties. Because the
  properties being looked for are required for projects with
  advanced content, with the fix applied IBM BPM V8.5.6 logs that
  these properties are empty when tracing is enabled and continues
   to process the remaining contribution projects. A project that
  does not have these properties would become unuseful in an IBM
  BPM project, so not processing it would not have adverse side
  effects.
  
  On Fix Central (http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral), search
  for JR55897:
  
  1.     Select IBM Business Process Manager with your edition
  from the product selector, the installed version to the fix pack
  level, and your platform, and then click Continue.
  2.     Select APAR or SPR, enter JR55897, and click Continue.
  
  When you download fix packages, ensure that you also download
  the readme file for each fix. Review each readme file for
  additional installation instructions and information about the
  fix.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  BPM ADVANCED

• Fixed component ID

  5725C9400

Applicable component levels