activiti timer error

simon_whelan

Hi,

I'm trying to add a intermediateCatchEvent to a workflow so that it will wait a defined period of time before moving on.

<intermediateCatchEvent id="timerintermediatecatchevent1" name="TimerCatchEvent">
<timerEventDefinition>
<timeDuration>PT5M</timeDuration>
</timerEventDefinition>
</intermediateCatchEvent>

So that timer should wait 5 mins before moving onto the next step.

which is this

      <receiveTask id="checkServiceFeatures" name="Check Service Features">
        <extensionElements>
          <activiti:executionListener event="start" delegateExpression="${remoteActionMessageDelegate}">
            <activiti:field name="serviceKey">
              <activiti:string><![CDATA[checkServiceFeaturesAction]]></activiti:string>
            </activiti:field>
          </activiti:executionListener>
        </extensionElements>
      </receiveTask>

Now the issue im having is that in the activiti console

Timer job 3c3304d6-a9c4-11e7-9930-f65b9af6b948

Due one week ago

Job execution

No more retries left

Error occurred while executing job: Unknown property used in expression: ${remoteActionMessageDelegate}

I have attached the full stack trace

Thanks

Simon

error.txt.zip

barianne_azamah

It took me several days of agonizing over this but I finally figured out what was causing this problem for me.

First thing is to check if you have another workflow engine running against the same database instance.

In my case, we have several development servers that we were using at one point or another.  One of them that we though got decommissioned actually came back into service without us knowing about it.  We had moved on to a different server at that point.  The problem was that once the server was recommissioned, the applications all started up again - including my workflow application.  It sat there, silently, listening for jobs in the ACT_RU_JOB table and it would occasionally pick one up before the new application would and it would result in that error.  The error was due to the fact that the old server had an older build of my application that was missing object references that the new one had.  The error in EXCEPTION_MSG_ was actually thrown by the old application.

Hope this helps someone!