
Exception stack is:
1. Unable to find xml type for :java.math.BigDecimal (java.io.IOException)
com.sforce.ws.bind.XmlObject:246 (null)
2. Failed to send request to https://ap2.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/32.0/00D28000001cxKG (com.sforce.ws.ConnectionException)
com.sforce.ws.transport.SoapConnection:121 (null)
3. null (java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl:-2 (null)
4. java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException-->null (net.sf.cglib.proxy.UndeclaredThrowableException)
org.mule.modules.salesforce.config.CustomPartnerConnection$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$397fd204:-1 (null)
5. net.sf.cglib.proxy.UndeclaredThrowableException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException-->null (org.mule.modules.salesforce.exception.SalesforceException)
org.mule.modules.salesforce.ExceptionDecorator:53 (http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/current3/apidocs/org/mule/modules/salesforce/exception/SalesforceException.html)
6. Failed to invoke create. Message payload is of type: ArrayList (org.mule.api.MessagingException)
org.mule.devkit.processor.DevkitBasedMessageProcessor:133 (http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/current3/apidocs/org/mule/api/MessagingException.html)
I agree, we just encountered the same message and root cause analysis traced it back to intermittent network issues in our datacenter.