Help Desk Ticket Reference: https://na7.salesforce.com/500A0000003hVxw
project_key: SOA

Using a SmooksAction to convert an XML to Java POJO, we ran into a problem. None of the actions after the SmooksAction were being prcessed. However, there were no errors in the server logs.

Only after enabling DEBUG logging we could see that the Smooks transformation was failing:

 DEBUG [org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.ActionProcessingPipeline] (pool-34-thread-1) Unexpected exception caught while processing the action pipeline
org.milyn.SmooksException: Failed to filter source.
	at org.milyn.delivery.sax.SmooksSAXFilter.doFilter(SmooksSAXFilter.java:72)
	at org.milyn.delivery.sax.SmooksSAXFilter.doFilter(SmooksSAXFilter.java:55)
	at org.milyn.Smooks._filter(Smooks.java:479)
	at org.milyn.Smooks.filterSource(Smooks.java:448)
	at org.milyn.container.plugin.PayloadProcessor.process(PayloadProcessor.java:112)
	at org.jboss.soa.esb.smooks.SmooksAction.process(SmooksAction.java:218)
	at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.ActionProcessingPipeline.processPipeline(ActionProcessingPipeline.java:634)
	at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.ActionProcessingPipeline.processPipeline(ActionProcessingPipeline.java:588)
	at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.ActionProcessingPipeline.process(ActionProcessingPipeline.java:419)
	at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.MessageAwareListener$TransactionalRunner.run(MessageAwareListener.java:540)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

Why are parse errors not reported during a smooks action? The action fails silently without reporting the cause of failure.