Birt Viewer 2.3.0 not working on Tomcat 5.5.23/CentOS 5.2

I have a fully updated system running CentOS 5.2 with Tomcat 5.5 (tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_2.1). 
 
I can follow the instructions at <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/viewerSetup.php'>Installing the BIRT Viewer in Tomcat</a> and successfully deploy BIRT Viewer 2.2.2. 
 
However, when I deploy version 2.3.0 the same way I get a "Resource () not found" error. 
 
catalina.out contains the following: 
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat5 
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat5 
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp 
Using JRE_HOME: 
Created MBeanServer with ID: 6pv076:fkxyuabu.0:zend.stl-horizon.com:1 
10-Sep-08 4:06:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent 
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /usr/lib/gcj-4.1.2 
10-Sep-08 4:06:53 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init 
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 
10-Sep-08 4:06:53 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load 
INFO: Initialization processed in 1163 ms 
10-Sep-08 4:06:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start 
INFO: Starting service Catalina 
10-Sep-08 4:06:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start 
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.23 
10-Sep-08 4:06:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start 
INFO: XML validation disabled 
10-Sep-08 4:08:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart 
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.eclipse.birt.report.listener.ViewerServletContextListener 
java.lang.AssertionError 
at org.eclipse.birt.core.framework.Platform.startup(Platform.java:86) 
at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.ReportEngineService.setEngineContext(ReportEngineService.java:304) 
at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.BirtViewerReportService.setContext(BirtViewerReportService.java:919) 
at org.eclipse.birt.report.listener.ViewerServletContextListener.contextInitialized(ViewerServletContextListener.java:62) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(catalina-5.5.23.jar.so3e2ces.so) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.7rh) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(bootstrap.jar.so) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(bootstrap.jar.so) 
10-Sep-08 4:08:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start 
SEVERE: Error listenerStart 
10-Sep-08 4:08:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start 
SEVERE: Context [/birt-viewer230] startup failed due to previous errors 
 
Please can anyone help me to resolve this issue, as I would like to use 2.3.0 to get around the Version Mismatch bug when using Firefox 3 (<a class='bbc_url' href='https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=213980)'>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=213980)</a>. 
 
Thanks 
 
Roger

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mwilliams

Hi Roger,

Did you unzip the new version over the old version, or did you create the new one completely separate from the old?

rhunwicks

I created two completely separate installations. 
 
First I stopped tomcat, copied the 2.3.0 WebViewerExample to /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/birt-viewer230. There were no other files in /webapps. I also cleared out the /work/Catalina/localhost directory. Then I started tomcat. Opening a browser to <a class='bbc_url' href='http://hostname:8080/birt-viewer230/'>http://hostname:8080/birt-viewer230/</a> gives the error. 
 
Then I stopped tomcat, copied the 2.2.2 WebViewerExample to /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/birt-viewer222. I removed /birt-viewer230 from /webapps. I cleared out the /work/Catalina/localhost directory. Then I started tomcat. Opening a browser to <a class='bbc_url' href='http://hostname:8080/birt-viewer222/'>http://hostname:8080/birt-viewer222/</a> works as expected: i.e. you get the BIRT version number page and the link the example report works correctly. 
 
Thanks

mwilliams

Roger, 
 
I haven't been able to re-create this problem. I've deployed the BIRT 2.3 viewer multiple times with no issues. I am not, however, running CentOS. Though I have searched and not seen anything about anyone else having the same problem. I asked my previous question because I thought that it could be possible that you ended up with an extra jar file or something like the person in the following post: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/forum/eclipse-birt-newsgroup-mirror/11473-web-viewer-2-3-0-deployment-error.html'>http://www.birt-exchange.com/forum/eclipse-birt-newsgroup-mirror/11473-web-viewer-2-3-0-deployment-error.html</a>

rhunwicks

Thanks for looking at this.

It is very unlikely that I have any additional jar files, or that the installation directory itself is bad: the file I downloaded unzips successfully and I am copying the WebViewerExample directory to the server with no changes.

Roger

pepebsd

Well, sorry for my english, i'm spanish and i haven't very good english level.
I had the same problem for tomcat with centos and finally i found than the problem are permissions, the carpet and files of reports has to have permissions for wrinting for the user that tomcat runs, in my case were user "tomcat"
I changed the carpet and files to group "tomcat" and change permissions for reading and writing for user "tomcat" and then Birt runs !!!!
I'm very happy for solve the problem, i hope this explication solve yours problems.

rhunwicks

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="pepebsd">I changed the carpet and files to group "tomcat" and change permissions for reading and writing for user "tomcat" and then Birt runs !!!! </blockquote>
 
I tried the most open setup I could think of: 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>chgrp -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/birt-viewer
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/birt-viewer</pre>
 
I tried this using Birt Runtime 2.3.0 and 2.3.2 with a variety of JVMs (the gcj installed with tomcat, a JDK and JRE downloaded from Sun, the JDK rebuilt with the jpackage .nosrc.rpm, and OpenJDK 1.6.0 using the EPEL repository. 
 
I couldnt get it to work in any combination. 
 
I finally got it to work by uninstalling the CentOS-packaged Tomcat (yum remove tomcat5) and installing the Sun JRE and a standalone Tomcat downloaded from tomcat.apache.org. 
 
Roger