Fatal error occurred when try to startup report engine.

rhcp

I am working on a new project at work. I have to do some support work on the BIRT reports. no one here know how to set the project up. All they know is were the source code is... So I got most of it working but when I start up the index.jsp in the project there is an error in the console in Eclipse(below). The index.jsp runs but when select one of the report that we have, i get this "+ Fatal error occurred when try to startup report engine." in the browser and it I am getting almost the same stack trace on the same error( below the first stack trace)

any help would great, thanks

Project facets:
BIRT Charting Runtime Component 2.3.0
Dynamic Web Module 2.3
Java 5.0

Using Tomcat 5.5

I am getting this error when I start up my project.
error 1:
org.eclipse.birt.report.exception.ViewerException: Fatal error occurred when try to startup report engine.
at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.ReportEngineService.setEngin eContext(ReportEngineService.java:311)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.BirtViewerReportService.setC ontext(BirtViewerReportService.java:919)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.listener.ViewerServletContextListene r.contextInitialized(ViewerServletContextListener.java:62)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(Stand ardContext.java:3764)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardConte xt.java:4216)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.j ava:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.jav a:736)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.j ava:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine .java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardServi ce.java:448)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer .java:700)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552 )
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:2 95)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:43 3)

I get this when I select a report to run.
error 2:
org.eclipse.birt.report.exception.ViewerException: Fatal error occurred when try to startup report engine.
at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.ReportEngineService.setEngin eContext(ReportEngineService.java:311)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.BirtViewerReportService.setC ontext(BirtViewerReportService.java:919)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.ViewerServlet.__getContext(V iewerServlet.java:148)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BirtSoapMessageDispatcherSer vlet.doGet(BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.java:137)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisS ervletBase.java:327)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BirtSoapMessageDispatcherSer vlet.service(BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.java:112)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFi lter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(App licationFilterChain.java:188)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.filter.ViewerFilter.doFilter(ViewerF ilter.java:68)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFi lter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(App licationFilterChain.java:188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(Standar dWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(Standar dContextValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHo stValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorRepo rtValve.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(Standard EngineValve.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAd apter.java:174)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Proce ssor.java:874)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11Connection Handler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(Poo lTcpEndpoint.java:528)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt( LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.ru n(ThreadPool.java:689)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

rhcp

Problem solved, someone checked in the code with control characters in it...