project_key: SOA

1. download SOA-P 5 from

http://jawa05.englab.brq.redhat.com/released/soa-5.0.0.GA/soa-5.0.0.GA.zip

2. unzip, add user admin=admin in jboss-soa-p.5.0.0/jboss-as/server/production/conf/props/soa-users.properties, start the production config

3. create jboss-soa-p.5.0.0/jboss-as/samples/quickstarts/quickstarts.properties
org.jboss.esb.server.config=production
jbpm.console.username=admin
jbpm.console.password=admin

4. go to jboss-soa-p.5.0.0/jboss-as/samples/quickstarts/messagealerts
$ ant deploy
verify esb has been deployed successfully
$ ant runtest

5. verify 4 WARN messages showed up in the server console

so far so good...

6. open the admin console and login as admin/admin
http://x.x.x.x:8080/admin-console/

7. wait for the NPE, it shows up every 60 seconds:
04:38:59,490 WARN [EventManager] Failure to report Events to Server.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.rhq.core.pc.event.EventManager.sendEventReport(EventManager.java:133)
at org.rhq.core.pc.event.EventSenderRunner.call(EventSenderRunner.java:48)
at org.rhq.core.pc.event.EventSenderRunner.run(EventSenderRunner.java:54)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:181)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:205)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)


If there wouldn't be any alerts, this NPE wouldn't show up.