During deploying simple WS-BPEL_1 project i got this exception at the ODE log.
2011-05-04 13:48:00 DeploymentPoller [ERROR] Deployment of HelloWorld failed, aborting for now. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.ode.utils.xsl.XslTransformHandler.setErrorListener(XslTransformHandler.java:172) at org.apache.ode.bpel.compiler.BpelC.invalidate(BpelC.java:88) at org.apache.ode.bpel.compiler.BpelC.compile(BpelC.java:289) at org.apache.ode.bpel.compiler.BpelC.compile(BpelC.java:333) at org.apache.ode.store.DeploymentUnitDir$5.run(DeploymentUnitDir.java:204) at org.apache.ode.utils.InternPool.runBlock(InternPool.java:57) at org.apache.ode.store.DeploymentUnitDir.compile(DeploymentUnitDir.java:201) at org.apache.ode.store.DeploymentUnitDir.compile(DeploymentUnitDir.java:162) at org.apache.ode.store.ProcessStoreImpl.deploy(ProcessStoreImpl.java:204) at org.apache.ode.store.ProcessStoreImpl.deploy(ProcessStoreImpl.java:172) at org.apache.ode.axis2.deploy.DeploymentPoller.check(DeploymentPoller.java:160) at org.apache.ode.axis2.deploy.DeploymentPoller.access$300(DeploymentPoller.java:60) at org.apache.ode.axis2.deploy.DeploymentPoller$PollingThread.run(DeploymentPoller.java:251) I was curious and I download ODE source code to debug it. While debugging I found out that the transformerFactory variable of XslTransformHandlerwas class not initialized by invoking method : public void setTransformerFactory(TransformerFactory transformerFactory) { _transformerFactory = transformerFactory; } As it turned out in the case of WS-BPEL_2 this variable is initialized in the constructor of the XPath10ExpressionCompilerBPEL20 class. TransformerFactory trsf = new net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl(); XslTransformHandler.getInstance().setTransformerFactory(trsf); But in the case of WS-BPEL_1, I have not found the point of initialization (_transformerFactory) To clarify the reasons that I think need to understand the actual compilation, but it is too difficult for an outsider. There are project files (my simple ODE WS-BPEL 1 project) in attachment. http://old.nabble.com/file/p31540876/HelloWorld.zip HelloWorld.zip Thanks for any information. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/NullPointerException-while-deploying-WS-BPEL1-project.-tp31540876p31540876.html Sent from the Apache Ode Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.