After providing invalid credentials at BPEL Console, BPEL Admin Console, or ESB Control, if valid credentials are entered, then every attempt to log in will result in the "Authentication Failed" error message.
Reason is that the OC4J instance uses the parameter ‘-Doc4j.formauth.redirect=true’, and OC4J does not redirect correctly. This invalid redirection prevents BPEL and ESB from being redirected to the correct page after a successful login attempt if there was a failed login attempt.
Workaround is you take login_error.jsp off from URL http://<host>:<port>/BPELConsole/login_error.jsp, So your URL would look like http://<host>:<port>/BPELConsole/. This will automatically log you in. Since the problem was with redirection and not with your credentials
Fix is to apply patch 7202167 from metalink.
