Applying Patch 16707698: TASK LISTING FILTER NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED on SOA 11.1.1.7.2

Applying Patch 16707698: TASK LISTING FILTER NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED on SOA 11.1.1.7.2

- Prerequisite Patches

17584181 SOA BUNDLE PATCH 11.1.1.7.2

- Download patch 16707698
- Apply patch on SOA Home

bash-3.2$ opatch apply
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.1.0.9.9
Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Oracle Home       : $MW_HOME/product/111/soa_111
Central Inventory : $MW_HOME/oraInventory
   from           : $MW_HOME/product/111/soa_111/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 11.1.0.9.9

OUI version       : 11.1.0.9.0

OPatch detects the Middleware Home as "$MW_HOME/product/111"
Applying interim patch '16707698' to OH '$MW_HOME/product/111/soa_111'

Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks...
All checks passed.

Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system.

(Oracle Home = '$MW_HOME/product/111/soa_111')

Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n]
y
User Responded with: Y
Backing up files...


Patching component oracle.integration.bpm, 11.1.1.7.0...
Patching component oracle.integration.soainfra, 11.1.1.7.0...

Verifying the update...


Patch 16707698 successfully applied

Related:

java.lang.NullPointerException ADF_FACES-60097: For more information, please see the server's error log for an entry beginning with: ADF_FACES-60096:Server Exception during PPR, #10

java.lang.NullPointerException ADF_FACES-60097: For more information, please see the server's error log for an entry beginning with: ADF_FACES-60096:Server Exception during PPR, #10

java.lang.NullPointerException ADF_FACES-60097: For more information, please see the server's error log for an entry beginning with: ADF_FACES-60096:Server Exception during PPR, #10


In SOA 11.1.1.7.1 & SOA 11.1.1.7.2 environments, when you login to BPM worklist app integration/worklistapp and select ANY from the status dropdown you get an error popup on the screen as below:

java.lang.NullPointerException ADF_FACES-60097: For more information, please see the server's error log for an entry beginning with: ADF_FACES-60096:Server Exception during PPR, #10

In SOA logs, errors as below are seen.


javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.taglib.util.MethodExpressionMethodBinding.invoke(MethodExpressionMethodBinding.java:58)
        at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponentBase.broadcastToMethodBinding(UIXComponentBase.java:1415)
        at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXEditableValue.broadcast(UIXEditableValue.java:216)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:103)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:93)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:361)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:96)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:97)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXRegion.broadcast(UIXRegion.java:181)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:93)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:361)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:96)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:103)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:93)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:361)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:96)
        at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:97)
        at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.broadcastEvents(LifecycleImpl.java:1086)
        at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl._executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:478)
        at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:207)
        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:265)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:227)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:125)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:301)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:27) 


To resolve this, apply below patches and re-test the issue.

1) 17584181 - Refer to Applying Patch 17584181 SOA BUNDLE PATCH 11.1.1.7.2

2) 16707698 - Refer to Applying Patch 16707698: TASK LISTING FILTER NOT WORKING AS EXPECTED on SOA 11.1.1.7.2