ProcessEngineLookup issue on WAS 8.5

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lonjan

Hi,
I'm facing issue on deployment of my application (Spring 3.2.2+ Maven + Activiti 5.12). I'm creating war via mvn package, and install into my WAS. The application server failed to start. Error logs as below;
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[6/9/13 23:46:16:506 MYT] 00000070 AdminHelper   A   ADMN1009I: An attempt is made to start the project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war application.
[6/9/13 23:46:16:517 MYT] 00000070 CompositionUn A   WSVR0190I: Starting composition unit WebSphere:cuname=project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war in BLA WebSphere:blaname=project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war.
[6/9/13 23:46:16:731 MYT] 00000070 ApplicationMg A   WSVR0200I: Starting application: project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war
[6/9/13 23:46:16:731 MYT] 00000070 ApplicationMg A   WSVR0204I: Application: project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war  Application build level: Unknown
[6/9/13 23:46:36:622 MYT] 00000070 PluginLoader  I PluginLoader startUp Adding OpenWebBeansPlugin : [OpenWebBeansJsfPlugin]
[6/9/13 23:46:36:623 MYT] 00000070 PluginLoader  I PluginLoader startUp Adding OpenWebBeansPlugin : [WSWebPlugin]
[6/9/13 23:46:36:625 MYT] 00000070 PluginLoader  I PluginLoader startUp Adding OpenWebBeansPlugin : [WSEjbPlugin]
[6/9/13 23:46:36:626 MYT] 00000070 PluginLoader  I PluginLoader startUp Adding OpenWebBeansPlugin : [ContextsServicePlugin]
[6/9/13 23:46:36:627 MYT] 00000070 PluginLoader  I PluginLoader startUp Adding OpenWebBeansPlugin : [OpenWebBeansEjbLCAPluginImpl]
[6/9/13 23:46:36:721 MYT] 00000070 AbstractInjec W   CWNEN0040W: The org.activiti.cdi.impl.context.DefaultContextAssociationManager$ScopedAssociation.runtimeService field or method was configured to be injected multiple times.
[6/9/13 23:46:36:721 MYT] 00000070 AbstractInjec W   CWNEN0040W: The org.activiti.cdi.impl.context.DefaultContextAssociationManager$ScopedAssociation.runtimeService field or method was configured to be injected multiple times.
[6/9/13 23:46:36:722 MYT] 00000070 AbstractInjec W   CWNEN0040W: The org.activiti.cdi.impl.context.DefaultContextAssociationManager$ScopedAssociation.runtimeService field or method was configured to be injected multiple times.
[6/9/13 23:46:36:722 MYT] 00000070 AbstractInjec W   CWNEN0040W: The org.activiti.cdi.impl.context.DefaultContextAssociationManager$ScopedAssociation.runtimeService field or method was configured to be injected multiple times.
[6/9/13 23:46:36:723 MYT] 00000070 AbstractInjec W   CWNEN0040W: The org.activiti.cdi.impl.context.DefaultContextAssociationManager$ScopedAssociation.runtimeService field or method was configured to be injected multiple times.
[6/9/13 23:46:36:723 MYT] 00000070 AbstractInjec W   CWNEN0040W: The org.activiti.cdi.impl.context.DefaultContextAssociationManager$ScopedAssociation.runtimeService field or method was configured to be injected multiple times.
[6/9/13 23:46:36:724 MYT] 00000070 webapp        I com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl WebGroup SRVE0169I: Loading Web Module: project.
[6/9/13 23:46:36:737 MYT] 00000070 WASSessionCor I SessionContextRegistry getSessionContext SESN0176I: Will create a new session context for application key default_host/project
[6/9/13 23:47:10:199 MYT] 00000070 WebContainerL I WebContainerLifecycle startApplication OpenWebBeans Container is starting…
[6/9/13 23:47:10:326 MYT] 00000070 BeansDeployer I BeansDeployer validateInjectionPoints All injection points were validated successfully.
[6/9/13 23:47:10:344 MYT] 00000070 ErrorStack    E ErrorStack logErrors
                                 org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: Could not find an implementation of the org.activiti.cdi.spi.ProcessEngineLookup service returning a non-null processEngine. Giving up.
   at org.activiti.cdi.impl.ActivitiExtension.lookupProcessEngine(ActivitiExtension.java:106)
   at org.activiti.cdi.impl.ActivitiExtension.afterDeploymentValidation(ActivitiExtension.java:68)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:76)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:602)
   at org.apache.webbeans.event.ObserverMethodImpl.notify(ObserverMethodImpl.java:285)
   at org.apache.webbeans.event.NotificationManager.fireEvent(NotificationManager.java:455)
   at org.apache.webbeans.container.BeanManagerImpl.fireEvent(BeanManagerImpl.java:415)
   at org.apache.webbeans.config.BeansDeployer.fireAfterDeploymentValidationEvent(BeansDeployer.java:280)
   at org.apache.webbeans.config.BeansDeployer.deploy(BeansDeployer.java:186)
   at org.apache.webbeans.lifecycle.AbstractLifeCycle.startApplication(AbstractLifeCycle.java:124)
   at org.apache.webbeans.web.lifecycle.WebContainerLifecycle.startApplication(WebContainerLifecycle.java:78)
   at com.ibm.ws.webbeans.common.CommonLifeCycle.startApplication(CommonLifeCycle.java:106)
   at com.ibm.ws.webbeans.services.JCDIServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(JCDIServletContainerInitializer.java:85)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initializeServletContainerInitializers(WebAppImpl.java:613)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:409)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl.addWebApplication(WebGroupImpl.java:88)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHostImpl.addWebApplication(VirtualHostImpl.java:169)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApp(WSWebContainer.java:749)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApplication(WSWebContainer.java:634)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:426)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:718)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1173)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1370)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:639)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:968)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:772)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplicationDynamically(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1367)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2172)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:445)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitImpl.start(CompositionUnitImpl.java:123)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:388)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.access$500(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:116)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl$1.run(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:663)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAs(ContextManagerImpl.java:5369)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAsSystem(ContextManagerImpl.java:5585)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.core.SecurityContext.runAsSystem(SecurityContext.java:255)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.startCompositionUnit(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:677)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.startCompositionUnit(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:621)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1259)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:76)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:602)
   at sun.reflect.misc.Trampoline.invoke(MethodUtil.java:75)
   at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor37.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:602)
   at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.invoke(MethodUtil.java:279)
   at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean$4.run(RequiredModelMBean.java:1245)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:252)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
   at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invokeMethod(RequiredModelMBean.java:1239)
   at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invoke(RequiredModelMBean.java:1077)
   at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:819)
   at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:792)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl$1.run(AdminServiceImpl.java:1335)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.util.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:118)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl.invoke(AdminServiceImpl.java:1228)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.AdminServiceDelegator.invoke(AdminServiceDelegator.java:181)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.ipc.CallRouter.route(CallRouter.java:247)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.ipc.IPCConnectorInboundLink.doWork(IPCConnectorInboundLink.java:360)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.ipc.IPCConnectorInboundLink$IPCConnectorReadCallback.complete(IPCConnectorInboundLink.java:602)
   at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
   at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
   at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
   at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
   at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
   at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
   at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
   at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1815)
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[6/9/13 23:47:10:350 MYT] 00000070 BeansDeployer E BeansDeployer deploy
                                 org.apache.webbeans.exception.WebBeansConfigurationException: There are errors that are added by AfterDeploymentValidation event observers. Look at logs for further details
   at org.apache.webbeans.util.WebBeansUtil.inspectErrorStack(WebBeansUtil.java:3000)
   at org.apache.webbeans.config.BeansDeployer.fireAfterDeploymentValidationEvent(BeansDeployer.java:282)
   at org.apache.webbeans.config.BeansDeployer.deploy(BeansDeployer.java:186)
   at org.apache.webbeans.lifecycle.AbstractLifeCycle.startApplication(AbstractLifeCycle.java:124)
   at org.apache.webbeans.web.lifecycle.WebContainerLifecycle.startApplication(WebContainerLifecycle.java:78)
   at com.ibm.ws.webbeans.common.CommonLifeCycle.startApplication(CommonLifeCycle.java:106)
   at com.ibm.ws.webbeans.services.JCDIServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(JCDIServletContainerInitializer.java:85)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initializeServletContainerInitializers(WebAppImpl.java:613)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:409)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl.addWebApplication(WebGroupImpl.java:88)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHostImpl.addWebApplication(VirtualHostImpl.java:169)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApp(WSWebContainer.java:749)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApplication(WSWebContainer.java:634)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:426)
   at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:718)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1173)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1370)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:639)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:968)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:772)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplicationDynamically(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1367)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2172)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:445)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitImpl.start(CompositionUnitImpl.java:123)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:388)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.access$500(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:116)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl$1.run(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:663)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAs(ContextManagerImpl.java:5369)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAsSystem(ContextManagerImpl.java:5585)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.core.SecurityContext.runAsSystem(SecurityContext.java:255)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.startCompositionUnit(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:677)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.startCompositionUnit(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:621)
   at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1259)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:76)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:602)
   at sun.reflect.misc.Trampoline.invoke(MethodUtil.java:75)
   at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor37.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:602)
   at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.invoke(MethodUtil.java:279)
   at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean$4.run(RequiredModelMBean.java:1245)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:252)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
   at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invokeMethod(RequiredModelMBean.java:1239)
   at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invoke(RequiredModelMBean.java:1077)
   at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:819)
   at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:792)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl$1.run(AdminServiceImpl.java:1335)
   at com.ibm.ws.security.util.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:118)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl.invoke(AdminServiceImpl.java:1228)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.AdminServiceDelegator.invoke(AdminServiceDelegator.java:181)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.ipc.CallRouter.route(CallRouter.java:247)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.ipc.IPCConnectorInboundLink.doWork(IPCConnectorInboundLink.java:360)
   at com.ibm.ws.management.connector.ipc.IPCConnectorInboundLink$IPCConnectorReadCallback.complete(IPCConnectorInboundLink.java:602)
   at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
   at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
   at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
   at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
   at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
   at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
   at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
   at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1815)

[6/9/13 23:47:10:405 MYT] 00000070 webapp        E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl WebGroup SRVE0015E: Failure to initialize Web application project
[6/9/13 23:47:10:418 MYT] 00000070 DeployedAppli W   WSVR0206E: Module, project-0.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.war, of application, project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war.ear/deployments/project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war, failed to start
[6/9/13 23:47:10:426 MYT] 00000070 ApplicationMg W   WSVR0101W: An error occurred starting, project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war
[6/9/13 23:47:10:427 MYT] 00000070 ApplicationMg A   WSVR0217I: Stopping application: project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war
[6/9/13 23:47:10:456 MYT] 00000070 ApplicationMg A   WSVR0220I: Application stopped: project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war
[6/9/13 23:47:10:471 MYT] 00000070 SystemOut     O WARN: The method class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLogFactory#release() was invoked.
[6/9/13 23:47:10:471 MYT] 00000070 SystemOut     O WARN: Please see http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#release for an explanation.
[6/9/13 23:47:10:481 MYT] 00000070 CompositionUn E   WSVR0194E: Composition unit WebSphere:cuname=project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war in BLA WebSphere:blaname=project-0_1_0_BUILD-SNAPSHOT_war failed to start.
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And this is my applicationContext.xml look like;
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<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

   <!– process engine configuration –>
   <bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="activitiDataSource" />
      <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
      <property name="transactionsExternallyManaged" value="true" />
      <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
      <property name="jpaEntityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
      <property name="jpaHandleTransaction" value="false" />
      <property name="jpaCloseEntityManager" value="false" />
      <property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="false" />
      <property name="deploymentResources"
         value="classpath*:/META-INF/activiti/process.*.bpmn20.xml*"></property>
      <property name="dbIdentityUsed" value="true" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="processEngine" class="org.activiti.spring.ProcessEngineFactoryBean">
      <property name="processEngineConfiguration" ref="processEngineConfiguration" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="repositoryService" factory-bean="processEngine"
      factory-method="getRepositoryService" />
   <bean id="runtimeService" factory-bean="processEngine"
      factory-method="getRuntimeService" />
   <bean id="taskService" factory-bean="processEngine"
      factory-method="getTaskService" />
   <bean id="historyService" factory-bean="processEngine"
      factory-method="getHistoryService" />
   <bean id="managementService" factory-bean="processEngine"
      factory-method="getManagementService" />
   <bean id="identityService" factory-bean="processEngine"
      factory-method="getIdentityService" />
   <bean id="formService" factory-bean="processEngine"
      factory-method="getFormService" />

</beans>
</blockcode>

After spent a lot of time to pin down the issue, i found dead end. I was brought to BPM-Guide site which atleast giving me more information on WAS issue, and i believe there should be a workaround to make activiti works just fine with WAS.

One way out for you by the way could be the Spring Framework which already contains abstractions for many vendor-specific technologies like transactions and threading.

TL;DR : Packaging Spring Maven with Activiti as war, deployed to WAS8.5 with default setup and application wont start. ProcessEngineLookup service issue.

Thanks

frederikherema1

I see you're using a SpringProcessEngineFactoryBean. Have you tried using the CDI-counterpart for this? Don't think spring-beans will be registered automatically in the CDI-context…