Apache Axis Instrumentation may cause null pointer exception and webservices to fail
09:36:55,834 ERROR [com.adminserver.utl.WorkerUtl] The following exception was thrown while processing an action.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.adminserver.utl.assignment.XPathAssigner.process(XPathAssigner.java:30)
at com.adminserver.utl.WorkerUtl.doWork(WorkerUtl.java:112)
at com.adminserver.utl.WorkerUtl.executeWork(WorkerUtl.java:43)
at com.adminserver.bll.InitializeWorkerBll.initializeProcess(InitializeWorkerBll.java:38)
at com.adminserver.bll.RetrievalReceptorBllBean.processRequest(RetrievalReceptorBllBean.java:103)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1025.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.invocation.Invocation.performCall(Invocation.java:359)
at org.jboss.ejb.StatelessSessionContainer$ContainerInterceptor.invoke(StatelessSessionContainer.java:237)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.invoke(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:158)
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JEE-7437 logged
The fix to handle null service name (JEE-7437) is back-ported to 5.7.3
Fixed in 5.7.4 and later versions
