My BPEL has partnerLink defined like this -
<partnerLink name="NewHireClient" partnerLinkType="tns:AlfServiceFlow" myRole="AlfServiceFlowProvider" />
<init-param> <description> name of the partner link served by this port </description> <param-name>partnerLinkHandle</param-name> <param-value>NewHireClient</param-value> </init-param>
14:19:24,213 INFO [ServiceEndpointManager] WebService started: http://HQ02022:8 080/NewHire/newhire 14:21:04,100 WARN [HandlerWrapper] RuntimeException in handler method, transiti on to DOES_NOT_EXIST 14:21:04,100 ERROR [HandlerChainBaseImpl] RuntimeException in request handler java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jbpm.bpel.integration.server.SoapHandler.sendRequest(SoapHandler. java:324) at org.jbpm.bpel.integration.server.SoapHandler.handleRequest(SoapHandle r.java:188) at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxrpc.handler.HandlerWrapper.handleRequest(Handler Wrapper.java:121) at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxrpc.handler.HandlerChainBaseImpl.handleRequestIn ternal(HandlerChainBaseImpl.java:275) ................... 14:21:04,210 WARN [HandlerWrapper] Handler is in state DOES_NOT_EXIST, skipping Handler.handleFault for: org.jbpm.bpel.integration.server.SoapHandler@d60cd6
My bad. When I create my project in eclipse, I get these weird chars just before xml declaration in my BPEL file. That was the problem.