JBAS015594 / NullPointerException when enlisting a 3rd party participant in WS-AT application in JBoss EAP

Issue

• Using WS-AT with the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC)

• Encountering the exception below

  ... ERROR [org.jboss.as.webservices.invocation.InvocationHandlerJAXWS] ... JBAS015594: Method invocation failed with exception: Error when enlisting participant ...
          ...
  Caused by: com.arjuna.wst.SystemException: java.lang.NullPointerException
          at com.arjuna.mwlabs.wst11.at.remote.TransactionManagerImple.registerParticipant(TransactionManagerImple.java:176) [jbossxts-4.17.29.Final-redhat-1.jar:4.17.29.Final-redhat-1]
          at com.arjuna.mwlabs.wst11.at.remote.TransactionManagerImple.enlistForDurableTwoPhase(TransactionManagerImple.java:41) [jbossxts-4.17.29.Final-redhat-1.jar:4.17.29.Final-redhat-1]
          ...
  

• A Byteman rule to capture the root exception verifies it to originate within the call stack below

  ... java.lang.NullPointerException
          at com.arjuna.wsc11.RegistrationCoordinator.register(RegistrationCoordinator.java:55)
          at com.arjuna.mwlabs.wst11.at.remote.TransactionManagerImple.registerParticipant(TransactionManagerImple.java:156)
          at com.arjuna.mwlabs.wst11.at.remote.TransactionManagerImple.enlistForDurableTwoPhase(TransactionManagerImple.java:41)
          ...