Basis Errors and Solutions

NetWeaver BPM: NullPointerException During Deployment

July 12, 2009 at 2:38 am

[BPM] [Business] [deployment] [deployment date] [Galaxy] [Management] [NetWeaver] [NW] [Process] [SAP] [sap netweaver]

NetWeaver BPM: NullPointerException During DeploymentSymptom You are deploying a Process DC to the SAP NetWeaver BPM Process Server. The deployment fails with a NullPointerException. In the defaultTrace or the deployment error message you will find an...
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Symptom

You are deploying a Process DC to the SAP NetWeaver BPM Process Server. The deployment fails with a NullPointerException. In the defaultTrace or the deployment error message you will find an exception stack trace comparable to the following one:
Caused by: com.sap.glx.core.dock.api.DockException: Adapter com.sap.glx.adapter.internal.ContainerAdapter didn’t comply with configuration
at com.sap.glx.core.dock.impl.DockingPortal.configureLoad
at com.sap.glx.core.dock.impl.DockingPortal.configureCallback
at com.sap.glx.core.dock.impl.DockingPortal.runConfigureCallback
at com.sap.glx.deploy.impl.DeployControllerImpl$InternalActuator.runRefreshDeploy
at com.sap.glx.deploy.impl.DeployControllerImpl$InternalActuator.run
at com.sap.glx.core.kernel.RuntimeManager.requestRuntimeMode
at com.sap.glx.deploy.impl.DeployControllerImpl$InternalActuator.execute
at com.sap.glx.deploy.impl.DeployControllerImpl$InternalActuator.refreshDeployUnits
at com.sap.glx.core.resource.impl.j2ee.rrdeploy.FlowHandlerImpl.receiveClusterNotification
at com.sap.glx.repository.service.cluster.impl.ClusterQueryManager.notifyHandlers
at com.sap.glx.repository.service.cluster.impl.ClusterQueryManager.clusterEventProcessing
… 24 more
Caused by: com.sap.glx.adapter.api.AdapterException: No type or root element was defined for container object.
at com.sap.glx.core.internaladapter.ContainerAdapter.unconfigure
at com.sap.glx.core.dock.impl.DockingPortal.configureLoad
… 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sap.glx.core.internaladapter.ContainerAdapter.unconfigure
… 35 more
Typically, this happens when deploying the same Process DC multiple times in a row. This symptom has been observed primarily on cluster systems, i.e. AS Java installations having more than one server node.
Other terms

Galaxy, SAP NW BPM, Business Process Management
Reason and Prerequisites

Program error.
Solution

To correct this problem, apply the patch matching your support package version as listed in the patch table below as per the instructions in the NetWeaver Support Package Stack Guide.
As an intermediate workaround, you may run your system in a single-node cluster mode.