Upgrade from Birt 2.5.2 to Birt 3.7.1

kallen

We previously used the code below to set up Birt Engine to use within our servlet, the migration guide says you just need to add the BIRT jars to the classpath, the birt jars were added to WEB-INF\lib.
When we run the app now, IReportEngineFactory returns null. Any input appreciated.

public static synchronized IReportEngine getBirtEngine(ServletContext sc) throws Exception {


EngineConfig config = new EngineConfig();
config.setBIRTHome("");


config.setLogConfig("C:/Temp", Level.FINEST);
config.setLogFile("birtLog.log");
realPath = sc.getRealPath("/reports");

IPlatformContext context = new PlatformServletContext(sc);
config.setPlatformContext(context);
try {
Platform.startup(config);
// log.info("Birt Home is: " + config.getPlatformContext().toString());
IReportEngineFactory factory = (IReportEngineFactory) Platform.createFactoryObject
(IReportEngineFactory.EXTENSION_REPORT_ENGINE_FACTORY);
birtEngine = factory.createReportEngine(config);

}
catch (Exception e ) {

throw e;
}

return birtEngine;
}

JasonW

Comment out this line:
config.setBIRTHome("");

Jason