Service Endpoint Conflict

When deploying two or more Composite Application projects, a service endpoint conflict might occur and the deployment fails. In case of the service endpoint conflict, the following message is displayed:

Deploy service assembly failed. (partial success)
MESSAGE: (SOAPBC_DEPLOY_2) Failed to deploy: java.lang.Exception:
An activated endpoint already has the same SOAP Address location:
http://localhost:18181/SynchronousSample
C:\<...>\SynchronousSample1Application\nbproject\build-impl.xml:209:
Service assembly deployment failed.
BUILD FAILED (total time: 31 seconds)

This could typically arise from trying to deploy nearly identical processes that are packaged in different Composite Application projects. The workaround for this issue is to use different endpoints during the deployment of different Composite Application projects.

Explanation: Even though you are deploying distinct Composite Applications and distinct BPEL processes, by default they will have the same endpoint addresses defined in their SynchronousSample.wsdl files. They will both contain the following endpoint address:

<service name="service1">
   <port name="port1" binding="tns:binding1">
      <documentation/>
      <soap:address location="http://localhost:18181/SynchronousSample"/>
   </port>
</service>

If you attempt to deploy two Composite Applications (for example, SynchronousSampleApplication and SynchronousSample1Application ) with identical service endpoints, the deployment of the second one will fail due to the endpoint conflict.

You may wish to deploy more than one version of a Composite Application because you want to modify one or both of these processes and deploy both of them at the same time. Or you may want to compare their behavior. To do this you must first make their endpoint addresses distinct. This means editing the process WSDL file and adjusting the soap:address location attribute so that there is no conflict. You can adjust either the port number or the service name. For example, either of these would be sufficiently distinct from the original:

<soap:address location="http://localhost:18182/SynchronousSample"/>

or

<soap:address location="http://localhost:18181/SynchronousSampleNew"/>