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Another tough error message to decrypt.

I had a simple BPEL Process that invoked a remote SOAP/HTTP web service. I had BPEL PM  10.1.3.3 running on BEA WLS 9.2.

When I run the BPEL process from the console, the outbound invocation throws back a remote fault.

[2008/11/02 13:06:10] "{http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension}remoteFault" has been thrown.less
<remoteFault xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"> 
   <part name="summary">
      <summary>
       exception on JaxRpc invoke: HTTP transport error: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Message send failed: For input string: ""

         </summary>
     </part>
</remoteFault>

The reason:

The JVM arguments –Dhttp.poxyHost and –Dhttp.proxyPort had empty values in the config.xml for the domain. i.e. –Dhttp.proxyHost= –Dhttp.proxyPort=

[In the admin console, you can view this in the “Startup” section in the “Server” section.

I removed these arguments from the startup section, and things just worked like a charm!

When you need to write an XML document into a queue/file, and if you wish to explicitly set the encoding on the xml document declaration, add the following onto the element of the XSD for the document that you are writing out.

< xsd:schema ....... xmlns:nxsd="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/nxsd" nxsd:encoding="UTF-8" ... >
...
< /xsd:schema >

The output document will then have the xml document declaration as

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >