Ramkumar Menon's Blog

Today, I ran into a silly issue where BPEL and ESB werent starting up.

There werent any log entries in orabpel.log or domain.log inspite of the fact that the log levels were all "debug".

It was throwing up this error - "Error while invoking bean "finder": Cannot lookup BPEL domain".

I managed to figure this out by going to the $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/<oc4jInstanceName>/application-deployments/orabpel/<oc4jInstanceName_groupName>_<index>.log

And it gave me the valuable error message stating

07/08/02 11:36:14.961 startup: Error preloading servlet
javax.servlet.ServletException:
ORABPEL START-UP ERROR!!!!!!!!

OraBPEL run-time expected system environment property "orabpel.home".

From here, it was simple. I opened up the opmn.xml and figured out that JVM arguments [java-options] in the start-parameters for the oc4j module werent having the orabpel.home and oraesb.home set up at all.

Wondering how this missed out, but nevertheless, I added in the appropriate -D arguments for both system env properties through EM and restarted the server, and things went just fine.