You do create services right? And your service portfolio grows and grows does it? Are they used by others? And do you know what services are already there in your organization? Oh, right, you did build up a list using Excel, didn't you? Of course, that's what I would do.

Unless I had a license on Oracle Enterprise Repository. Since then I already was alowed to use API Catalog.
 
Actually, I thaught the AIA11g training several times. And one of the  parts is harvesting your services into Oracle Enterprise Manager. Where you can do impact analasis on your services. It relates xsd's, wsdl's, composites (both EBS and ABCS) and interrelates them with eachother based on the AIA taxonomy. OER supports governance from the conception of services to the use in production of them. API Catalog does not support this whole lifecycle governance, but often that is to much for a customer. I would say, to me as  a developer/architect is would be. But API Catalog would help me to build up a light weight portfolio of my services at a customer.

I recognized OER bits and pieces and API catalog indeed uses that. It allows you to do a harvesting of your services from OSB and SOASuite using (about) the same harvesting scripts that are recognized from AIA.

This week on the OPN FMW Partner Forum 2015, I learned that many things we know from AIA11g are (going to be) build in the different products like SOASuite, the API/OER suite, etc. You could compare that to how things went with Oracle Designer and Headstart for Designer.

Other products in the API suite are:

• Oracle API Manager is an addon to Service Bus. Is a Developer portal for Oracle Service Bus.
• Oracle API Gateway is an OEM-ed product targeted to the DMZ to manage access to your services/API's and also has some API Management functionallity in its self.

 For now please install Catalog and harvest your services. Then you can copy and paste the descriptions from your Excel sheet or Wiki into API Catalog and in a later stage reuse them in API Manager. Then throw away your Excelsheet....

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I ran into a bug relating an invalid MDS url while trying to create an XSL based on the Case.xsd.

Just this morning got a notification on my Service Request that there is a patch for an invalid MDS url while creating an XSLT based on the Case management XSD: 19775314. There are two versions of the patch: one for the  12.1.3.0.0 and one for 12.1.3.0.1 for homes that have the bundle patch applied.


I tried the second one on my BPM QuickStart home that was patched with the bundle patch.

So currently the recommended patches on the BPM QuickStart are:

• 20163149: (dataobject assignment lost after dehydration), this is mentioned as a prerequesite to the bundle patch, as alternative to the wrongly mentioned patch in the Readme.
• 19707784: SOA Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.1
• 20440332: Initiator task form does not shown up on workspace and task is auto approved
• 19775314: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Invalid url ERROR WHEN CREATING TRANSFORMATION (Patch) 
• 19706799: db adapter wizard mappings and xsd file creation does not trigger event in win (Patch); choose the 12.1.3.0.1 version.

Lately I wrote about the release of the BPM12c Bundelpatch 1 and the problems regarding Initiator tasks we were having: BPM 12c BundelPatch1: InitiatorTask problem.

I created a service request for it and now there is a patch for it: BPM 12c BP interim patch #20440332
This patch must be applied after applying the BundelPatch and it's recommended prereq-patch (p20163149).

The patch 20440332 is official hence for public download. With this patch it works for us.

Thanks to Gucci for his support.

There are already several blogs on how to receive and send email using the UMS email adapter. A few good starting points that use GMail as a provider are the ones written by our respected con-colleagues of Amis:

• Receiving email
• Sending email

So I won't bother to do a how-to on that on my account. Although I manged to get that working with a local Exchange setup.

What I managed to do is to read e-mail and then process it to upload the attachments and body using BPEL and java in a Spring-Context to Adaptive Case Management. If you want to do something similar make sure you install the patch 18511990 for fetching the attachment-properties and -content, since without the patch the properties for inline attachements are not written properly to the soa-infra database. See my earlier blog-posts here and here.

Having it all setup and playing around with it, you might end up in the situation that the service won't listen to the actual email-address you reserved for it, as I did. This might be the case when you change the email address in your receiving adapter component in the composite. Or after deploying several versions of the composite, especially with different addresses.

It turns out that there is a panel to deregister Messaging Client Applications to cleanup the mess.
First go to the Enterprise Manager and under the Weblogic Domain navigate to the 'usermessagingserver' (there are also entries for the different usermessagingdriver's, but in this case you need the server itself):
 Right click on it and in the pop-up choose 'Messaging Client Applications':
 Here the registered Messaging Client Applications are registered with the particular endpoints.
In our case all the activation agents of the polling inbound email adapters are registered here and it the situation might occur that the composites are listening to wrong addresses. So select those you don't want anymore, and click on the De-register button.
You might need to re-deploy your composite and edit the component for the inbound email to have it listening to the proper address set-up for the particular environment (development, test, accepetance, production). And then it shoud work. Maybe a server restart is necessary to have the proper activation agent(s) started (and the unwanted shutdown).

 Last week we installed the new "SOA Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.1 (Patch)" (19707784).
 Applying the patch went fine, no problem at all.

We have a process that is initiated by an Initiator Task, that can be started, I'm sure you're familiar with, using the link under 'Applications'. In our case, however, clicking it gives an exception in stead of opening the Task Form:

Unfortunately I have a Dutch version of my browser, but translated it states something like: "The process initiation task has no payload. The process instance has been created and has been approved."
The message in English:


Strange is that the task apparently is auto-submitted, since the process flows on causing, in  our process,  a  ACM Case started with empty data. A stacktrace we found in the server diagnostic log is:

[2015-01-26T09:28:58.517+01:00] [bpm_server1] [ERROR] [] [oracle.soa.services.workflow.task] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '14' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: hans] [ecid: c7fc39f4-cf66-4d25-84e0-f1fd8eb550e5-000087b2,1:31540] [APP: soa-infra] [oracle.soa.tracking.FlowId: 700014] [oracle.soa.tracking.InstanceId: 760219] [oracle.soa.tracking.SCAEntityId: 210006] [FlowId: 0000Kg_MuAf5uX05zzS4yW1KlM_O00000c] <.> exception.code:30036[[
exception.type: ERROR
exception.severity: 2
exception.name: Invalid action on workflow task or user does not have privilege to perform this action.
exception.description: Action SUBMIT on task 1b51326d-a3be-4f9f-b055-b7b365ae2f3c cannot be performed by hans.
exception.fix: Make sure that the action is valid with respect to the current state of the task or ensure that the user has privilege to perform this action on the workflow task.
 ORABPEL-30036

exception.code:30036
exception.type: ERROR
exception.severity: 2
exception.name: Invalid action on workflow task or user does not have privilege to perform this action.
exception.description: Action SUBMIT on task 1b51326d-a3be-4f9f-b055-b7b365ae2f3c cannot be performed by hans.
exception.fix: Make sure that the action is valid with respect to the current state of the task or ensure that the user has privilege to perform this action on the workflow task.

 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.impl.TaskService.performPreActionValidation(TaskService.java:8686)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.impl.TaskService.updateTaskOutcomeAndEvaluateRoutingSlip(TaskService.java:3929)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.impl.TaskService.updateTaskOutcome(TaskService.java:3725)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.impl.TaskService.updateTaskOutcome(TaskService.java:3701)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:318)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.adapter.ThrowsAdviceInterceptor.invoke(ThrowsAdviceInterceptor.java:124)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.common.WorkflowFabricInitCheckAdvice.invoke(WorkflowFabricInitCheckAdvice.java:26)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.common.WorkflowServiceCacheEventAdvice.invoke(WorkflowServiceCacheEventAdvice.java:114)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.test.workflow.ExceptionTestCaseBuilder.invoke(ExceptionTestCaseBuilder.java:155)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
 at oracle.bpel.services.common.dms.MethodEventAspect.invoke(MethodEventAspect.java:70)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
 at oracle.bpel.services.common.dms.MethodPhaseEventAspect.invoke(MethodPhaseEventAspect.java:82)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
 at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
 at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy407.updateTaskOutcome(Unknown Source)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.ejb.TaskServiceBean.updateTaskOutcome(TaskServiceBean.java:616)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:310)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:182)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:149)
 at com.oracle.pitchfork.intercept.MethodInvocationInvocationContext.proceed(MethodInvocationInvocationContext.java:100)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.ejb.JpsAbsInterceptor$1.run(JpsAbsInterceptor.java:131)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at oracle.security.jps.util.JpsSubject.doAs(JpsSubject.java:208)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.util.JpsPlatformUtil.runJaasMode(JpsPlatformUtil.java:454)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.ejb.JpsAbsInterceptor.runJaasMode(JpsAbsInterceptor.java:118)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.ejb.JpsAbsInterceptor.intercept(JpsAbsInterceptor.java:197)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.ejb.JpsInterceptor.intercept(JpsInterceptor.java:112)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor853.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at com.oracle.pitchfork.intercept.JeeInterceptorInterceptor.invoke(JeeInterceptorInterceptor.java:109)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:131)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.invoke(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:119)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
 at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy413.updateTaskOutcome(Unknown Source)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.ejb.TaskServiceBean_399vcw_EOImpl.__WL_invoke(Unknown Source)
 at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.SessionRemoteMethodInvoker.invoke(SessionRemoteMethodInvoker.java:34)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.ejb.TaskServiceBean_399vcw_EOImpl.updateTaskOutcome(Unknown Source)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.ejb.TaskServiceBean_399vcw_EOImpl_WLSkel.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at weblogic.rmi.internal.ServerRequest.sendReceive(ServerRequest.java:226)
 at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteRef.invoke(ClusterableRemoteRef.java:474)
 at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteRef.invoke(ClusterableRemoteRef.java:285)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.ejb.TaskServiceBean_399vcw_EOImpl_12130_WLStub.updateTaskOutcome(Unknown Source)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.client.TaskServiceRemoteClient.updateTaskOutcome(TaskServiceRemoteClient.java:2213)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.WFClientRetryInvocationHandler.invokeTarget(WFClientRetryInvocationHandler.java:141)
 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.WFClientRetryInvocationHandler.invoke(WFClientRetryInvocationHandler.java:80)
 at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy579.updateTaskOutcome(Unknown Source)
 at oracle.bpm.workspace.model.common.ExecutionBean.approveTask(ExecutionBean.java:311)
 at oracle.bpm.workspace.model.common.ExecutionBean.handleExternalInstanceExecution(ExecutionBean.java:185)
 at oracle.bpm.workspace.model.application.ApplicationBean.execute(ApplicationBean.java:193)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
 at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:254)
 at com.sun.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke(MethodExpressionImpl.java:302)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.MethodExpressionMethodBinding.invoke(MethodExpressionMethodBinding.java:46)
 at com.sun.faces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:102)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCommand.broadcast(UIXCommand.java:190)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection.broadcast(UIXCollection.java:189)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection.broadcast(UIXCollection.java:170)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection.broadcast(UIXCollection.java:189)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection.broadcast(UIXCollection.java:170)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection.broadcast(UIXCollection.java:189)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection.broadcast(UIXCollection.java:170)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:111)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:168)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:510)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:171)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:115)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.event.ProxyEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(ProxyEvent.java:72)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXRegion.broadcast(UIXRegion.java:124)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.event.ProxyEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(ProxyEvent.java:72)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXRegion.broadcast(UIXRegion.java:124)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:168)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:510)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:171)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:111)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:168)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:510)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:171)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:115)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:168)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:510)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:171)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:111)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponent.broadcastInContext(UIXComponent.java:364)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.WrapperEvent.broadcastWrappedEvent(WrapperEvent.java:82)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent$1.run(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:168)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent._processPhase(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:510)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.ContextSwitchingComponent.broadcast(ContextSwitchingComponent.java:171)
 at oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude.broadcast(UIXInclude.java:115)
 at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.broadcastEvents(UIViewRoot.java:794)
 at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:1259)
 at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl._invokeApplication(LifecycleImpl.java:1074)
 at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl._executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:402)
 at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:225)
 at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:593)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:280)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:254)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:136)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:346)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:25)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.help.web.rich.OHWFilter.doFilter(OHWFilter.java:189)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.adf.model.servlet.ADFBindingFilter.doFilter(ADFBindingFilter.java:192)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.webapp.rich.RegistrationFilter.doFilter(RegistrationFilter.java:105)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl$FilterListChain.doFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:502)
 at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.activedata.AdsFilter.doFilter(AdsFilter.java:60)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl$FilterListChain.doFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:502)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl._doFilterImpl(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:327)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl.doFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:229)
 at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.webapp.TrinidadFilter.doFilter(TrinidadFilter.java:92)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.adf.library.webapp.LibraryFilter.doFilter(LibraryFilter.java:202)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter$1.run(JpsAbsFilter.java:137)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at oracle.security.jps.util.JpsSubject.doAsPrivileged(JpsSubject.java:315)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.util.JpsPlatformUtil.runJaasMode(JpsPlatformUtil.java:460)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter.runJaasMode(JpsAbsFilter.java:120)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter.doFilter(JpsAbsFilter.java:217)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsFilter.doFilter(JpsFilter.java:81)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter$1.run(JpsAbsFilter.java:137)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at oracle.security.jps.util.JpsSubject.doAsPrivileged(JpsSubject.java:315)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.util.JpsPlatformUtil.runJaasMode(JpsPlatformUtil.java:460)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter.runJaasMode(JpsAbsFilter.java:120)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter.doFilter(JpsAbsFilter.java:217)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsFilter.doFilter(JpsFilter.java:81)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.dms.servlet.DMSServletFilter.doFilter(DMSServletFilter.java:220)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter$1.run(JpsAbsFilter.java:137)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at oracle.security.jps.util.JpsSubject.doAsPrivileged(JpsSubject.java:315)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.util.JpsPlatformUtil.runJaasMode(JpsPlatformUtil.java:460)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter.runJaasMode(JpsAbsFilter.java:120)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsAbsFilter.doFilter(JpsAbsFilter.java:217)
 at oracle.security.jps.ee.http.JpsFilter.doFilter(JpsFilter.java:81)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestEventsFilter.doFilter(RequestEventsFilter.java:27)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.wrapRun(WebAppServletContext.java:3436)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3402)
 at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
 at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
 at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:57)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.doSecuredExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2285)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2201)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2179)
 at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1572)
 at weblogic.servlet.provider.ContainerSupportProviderImpl$WlsRequestExecutor.run(ContainerSupportProviderImpl.java:255)
 at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:311)
 at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:263)

]]

I tried it with a "stripped-down-to-the-bone" simple BPM project with only a simple HumanTask based on a simple DataObject with only 2 string attributes. And a auto-generated taskform. And again the fault occurs. When we rollback the patch the initiator functionality work again.

So be carefull applying this patch when using Initiator Tasks.

2015-02-03:  Update: I added the correct English message above. On the SOA Proactive Support blog is stated that there is a pre-requisite patch: "Patch 20163149: DATAOBJECT ASSIGNMENT LOST AFTER DEHYDRATION". The readme states 20333237, but this is incorrect. But unfortunately applying this patch does not solve the problem. So still be carefull with applying this bundle patch.