NullPointerException in ReportEngine class

JayP

Hi,
I'm trying to develop and deploy a custom Web based BIRT report using BIRT ReportEngine API 2_6_0 and getting the following error while trying to run the web application on JBoss 4.2 app server. I also tried with BIRT ReportEngine API 2_5_2 and get the exact same error.

12:25:33,861 ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.NullPointerException
12:25:33,861 ERROR [STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.ReportEngine$EngineExtensionManager.<init>(ReportEngine.java:813)
12:25:33,861 ERROR [STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.ReportEngine.<init>(ReportEngine.java:110)

The error is encountered in org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.ReportEngine class at the following line:
IExtensionRegistry registry = Platform.getExtensionRegistry( );

Here, the registry value is null.

Following is the sample piece of my code to get the IReportEngine object. I call this code from a Servlet.

private static IReportEngine birtEngine = null;
EngineConfig config = new EngineConfig();
config.getAppContext().put(EngineConstants.APPCONTEXT_CLASSLOADER_KEY, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
config.setBIRTHome("C:/birt-runtime-2_6_0/ReportEngine");

IPlatformContext context = new PlatformServletContext( sc );
config.setPlatformContext( context );

try
{
Platform.startup( config );
}
catch ( BirtException e )
{
e.printStackTrace( );
}

IReportEngineFactory factory = null;

try {
factory = (IReportEngineFactory) Platform.createFactoryObject( IReportEngineFactory.EXTENSION_REPORT_ENGINE_FACTORY );
} catch ( Exception e )
{
if(factory == null) {
System.out.println("Null factory");
} else {
System.out.println("Factory not null");
}
e.printStackTrace();
}

try {
birtEngine = factory.createReportEngine( config );
} catch ( Exception e )
{
if(birtEngine == null) {
Platform.shutdown();
System.out.println("Null BirtEngine object");
} else {
System.out.println("birtEngine not null");
}
e.printStackTrace();
}

Any help would be really appreciated.

JasonW

Where do you have the plugins in this app?

Jason