Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Having trouble viewing SVG process diagrams in BPC Explorer?

Yesterday I discovered an extremely neat feature of Business Process Explorer: The "view process state" function. It displays a SVG graphics resembling the business process diagram designed in the Websphere Integration Developer. What's more - it also marks the current state of the business process instance. That's useful if you'd like to know where your process hangs (if yours ever hangs indeed...).

However today I encountered some trouble viewing these graphics. Not only the "view process state" function produced errors but also the "view structure" function with process templates. In Firefox, a yellow field occurred saying there was an error in the underlying XML. On the server console, the following error message was visible:

java.security.AccessControlException: Access denied (java.lang.RuntimePermission exitVM)

If you should run into the same trouble, here's one tip: restart your server in 'Run' mode instead of 'debug" mode! Funny but true, the SVG export does not work in debug mode...

Best regards,
Matthias

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