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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!