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Steps to reproduce: - Add Invoke activity to process. - Configure it to use some operation with input variable. - Go to bpel source and add empty tag '<toPart/>' to Invoke. - Wait a few seconds while validator starts. - Following NPE occurs (see attach for full stack trace): java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.bpel.model.validation.staticanalysis.BPELStaticAnalysisHelp er.checkAnyMissingToPartElementInInvoke(BPELStaticAnalysisHelper.java:398) ...
Created attachment 33575 [details] Exception stack trace
There was a set of bugs in static validators helper. One need to check for non null attribute value before accessing to referenced element ( if attribute is reference ).
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