JBPM Timer Action

[itsmeprash]

Hi,

I have written a JBPM Timer Action Handler.

STEPS:
1) Enable the JBPM Scheduler Servlet in web.xml
2) In the process definition define the timer tag.

 <task-node name="First Task Task Task[9-1.1]">
 <task name="First Task Task Task[9-1.1]" duedate="1 business days">
 <assignment actor-id="jeromepater"/>
 <timer duedate="6 business hours">
 <action class="org.springmodules.workflow.jbpm31.JbpmHandlerProxy" name="tasktimer" config-type="bean">
 <targetBean>updateEscalationForActor</targetBean>
 <factoryKey>jbpmConfiguration</factoryKey>
 </action>
 </timer>
 </task>
 <event type="task-start">
 <action class="org.springmodules.workflow.jbpm31.JbpmHandlerProxy" name="taskstart" config-type="bean">
 <targetBean>taskStartEvent</targetBean>
 <factoryKey>jbpmConfiguration</factoryKey>
 </action>
 </event>
 <transition to="1-join"/>
 </task-node>

3) In the ActionClass i am calling

 Timer timer = executionContext.getTimer();
 Date date = timer.getDueDate();

Here i am getting a null pointer exception for timer. The timer object is not available to me. I looked at the classes in org.jbpm.scheduler.impl.*, but don't know where it fails. In Timer.execute see a call for action.execute(executionContext); Before that

 // first fire the event if there is a graph element specified
 if (graphElement!=null) {
 graphElement.fireAndPropagateEvent(Event.EVENTTYPE_TIMER, executionContext);
 }

Is the timer Object for sure set in the Execution context when the fireAndPropogateEvent is called. Is there anything i am missing here.

Please help.
Thanks
Prash