It seems that the path we're following doesn't protected the caller from missing ConfigTree.
The offending line:
final String ruleServiceImpl = configTree.getAttribute( IMPL_CLASS.getTagName(), "org.jboss.internal.soa.esb.services.rules.DroolsRuleService" );
doesn't check if configTree is null or not.. thus the following:
[java] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException [java] at org.jboss.internal.soa.esb.services.rules.RuleServiceCallHelper.executeRulesService(RuleServiceCallHelper.java:92) [java] at org.jboss.internal.soa.esb.services.routing.cbr.JBossRulesRouter.route(JBossRulesRouter.java:123) [java] at org.jboss.internal.soa.esb.services.routing.cbr.JBossRulesRouter.route(JBossRulesRouter.java:87) [java] at XXXX.soa.esb.service.actions.ContentBasedDetour.process(ContentBasedDetour.java:148) [java] at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.ActionProcessingPipeline.process(ActionProcessingPipeline.java:316) [java] at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.MessageAwareListener$TransactionalRunner.run(MessageAwareListener.java:530) [java] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [java] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [java] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)