PH36461: TRANSACTION RECOVERY FAILS DUE TO ORG.XML.SAX.SAXPARSEEXCEPTION: THE NAMESPACE PREFIX "WSA" WAS

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Transaction recovery fails generating the following message:
  
  [4/7/21 3:26:09:312 UTC] 00000080 RegisteredRes E   WTRN0045W:
  The transaction service cannot recover resource [B@df1d4cee.
  The exception stack trace follows:
  javax.transaction.SystemException
   at
  com.ibm.ws.Transaction.wstx.WSATAsyncResource.fromLogData(WSATAs
  yncResource.java:402)
   at
  com.ibm.ws.Transaction.wstx.WSATParticipantWrapper.<init>(WSATPa
  rticipantWrapper.java:76)
   at
  com.ibm.ws.tx.jta.RegisteredResources.reconstruct(RegisteredReso
  urces.java:316)
   at
  com.ibm.tx.jta.impl.TransactionImpl.reconstruct(TransactionImpl.
  java:748)
   at
  com.ibm.ws.tx.jta.RecoveryManager.handleTranRecord(RecoveryManag
  er.java:1015)
   at
  com.ibm.tx.jta.impl.RecoveryManager.replayTranLog(RecoveryManage
  r.java:498)
   at
  com.ibm.tx.jta.impl.RecoveryManager.run(RecoveryManager.java:211
  3)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:822)
  Caused by: com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.InternalException:
  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The namespace prefix "wsa" was
  not declared.
   at
  com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.xmlsoap.SOAPElement._asSOAPElement
  (SOAPElement.java:2903)
   ...
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:  WebSphere Application Server users of Web   *
  *                  Services Atomic Transactions                *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Transaction recovery fails generating   *
  *                      WTRN0045W message with cause            *
  *                      org.xml.sax.SAXParseException           *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  A WebSphere Application Server application server propagated
  transactional context on a Web Service request using WS-AT to
  a downstream application server.
  This resulted in the registration of the downstream
  application server's Participant EPR for its subordinate
  transaction branch with the superior branch in the upstream
  application server.  A defect in the WS-Addressing
  component meant that the serialized Participant EPR stored in
  the transaction service logs was invalid and could
  not be deserialized on recovery. This occurs when using WS-AT
  versions 1.1 or 1.2 that use the WS-Addressing 2005/08
  namespace, it does not occur when using WS-AT 1.0.
  

Problem conclusion

• The WS-Addressing component was modified so that use of the
  EPR to target outbound WS-AT protocol requests did not modify
  the EPR's underlying SOAPElement data that caused the
  corruption.
  
  The fix for this APAR is targeted for inclusion in fix packs
  8.5.5.20 and 9.0.5.9. For more information, see 'Recommended
  Updates for WebSphere Application Server':
  https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/715553
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WEBS APP SERV N

• Fixed component ID

  5724H8800

Applicable component levels

• R850 PSY

     UP

• R900 PSY

     UP