BirtHome in Birt Runtime 3.7

Shasha

Why we need to set BirtHome even if we are using Birt Runtime 3.7<br />
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As per my understanding we dont require to set Birt_Home when we are using BIRT Runtime 3.7.<br />
But if i m not specifying it we are getting cannot start osgi as we normally get in earlier version of birt. <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/public/style_emoticons/'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/public/style_emoticons/</a><#EMO_DIR#>/confused.gif

bmario

Hi!

As far as I know there is no need for specifying BIRT's home in 3.7. I recommend you read this: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Birt_3.7_Migration_Guide

Shasha

Hi bmario,

yeah i agree with you.. thats y i asked the same question.. But in the following post, Json asked to set BIRT_HOME.

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/24320-birt-deployment-on-sap-netweaver-j2ee-engine-as-application-or-report-service-tool/

CBR

Hi,

from all i know the setBIRTHome method is still part of the API for backward compatibility reasons. I had some scenarios where i really need to remove the setBIRTHome call because BIRT 3.7 crashed if it was pointing to a directory.
I think the reason Jason asked was that he was thinking that the user had set the BIRT_HOME var to a non existing directory. Everything else would be a bug in my mind (there is no OSGI platform to be started up...so why should we set BIRT_HOME to some random directory, that doesn't even exist)

Shasha

I m now stuck with Integrating BIRT with Netweaver..<br />
its almost 1 week now..<br />
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had done all the workaround as well..<br />
but the below error is coming... <br />
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Fatal error occurred when try to startup report engine.<br />
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org.eclipse.birt.report.exception.ViewerException: Fatal error occurred when try to startup report engine. at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.ReportEngineService.setEngineContext(ReportEngineService.java:334) at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.BirtViewerReportService.setContext(BirtViewerReportService.java:1022) at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.ViewerServlet.__getContext(ViewerServlet.java:148) at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.doPost(BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.java:243) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:754) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847) at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.service(BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.java:122) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.FilterChainImpl.runServlet(FilterChainImpl.java:202) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:103) at org.eclipse.birt.report.filter.ViewerFilter.doFilter(ViewerFilter.java:68) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:432) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:210) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:441) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:430) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.filters.DSRWebContainerFilter.process(DSRWebContainerFilter.java:38) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.filters.ServletSelector.process(ServletSelector.java:81) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.filters.ApplicationSelector.process(ApplicationSelector.java:276) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.filters.WebContainerInvoker.process(WebContainerInvoker.java:81) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.HostFilter.process(HostFilter.java:9) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.filters.ResponseLogWriter.process(ResponseLogWriter.java:60) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.HostFilter.process(HostFilter.java:9) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.filters.DefineHostFilter.process(DefineHostFilter.java:27) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.ServerFilter.process(ServerFilter.java:12) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.filters.MonitoringFilter.process(MonitoringFilter.java:29) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.ServerFilter.process(ServerFilter.java:12) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.filters.SessionSizeFilter.process(SessionSizeFilter.java:26) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.ServerFilter.process(ServerFilter.java:12) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.filters.MemoryStatisticFilter.process(MemoryStatisticFilter.java:57) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.ServerFilter.process(ServerFilter.java:12) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.filters.DSRHttpFilter.process(DSRHttpFilter.java:43) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.ServerFilter.process(ServerFilter.java:12) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.chain.AbstractChain.process(AbstractChain.java:78) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.chainedRequest(Processor.java:475) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor$FCAProcessorThread.process(Processor.java:269) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.rcm.RequestProcessorThread.run(RequestProcessorThread.java:56) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.Executable.run(Executable.java:122) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.Executable.run(Executable.java:101) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.CentralExecutor$SingleThread.run(CentralExecutor.java:328)<br />
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please Jason try to deploy BIRT in Netweaver.. Tried everything now.. <br />
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During initialize time also i manually tried starting the BIRT Engine.. but the factory variable is always returning null value

Shasha

Hey i got the Solutuion...

Sap Netweaver uses Galileo Version of Eclipse.. And for that i have degraded my BIRT Version to 2.5.2 and Birt reports are now opening

yippppiiii

But i m not sure about the features i was using BIRT 3.7.1 in making BIRT Reports will be supported by downgraded version of BIRT. Anyhow Thanks all for your help