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Tojan John
(117●28●82) Apr 01 '15, 7:30 a.m.
 I am using BIRT 2.6.2 version in RTC 4.0.4 for report generation. Now I am looking for option to schedule the report generation.  I tried using BIRT runtime genReport option. I am able to run sample report, but if I run real report which needs to be connected to Oracle database is throwing error.

Apr 01, 2015 4:55:28 PM org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.ReportRunner execute
SEVERE: exception in parsing the paramters
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.ReportRunner.execute(ReportRunner.
java:145)
        at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.ReportRunner.main(ReportRunner.jav
a:122)

Need guidance to resolve the issue.

Also, tried running report on tomcat server, that too failed.

Appreciate help on running BIRT outside RTC environment.

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Mathieu Defianas
(159●5●29●38) Apr 01 '15, 8:47 a.m.
Hello,
I have encountered the same problem and finally, I have used a java program which calls report url with REST API.
Then you execute this java program with a script in a scheduler (crontab or windows tasks).
Regards
Mathieu

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Tojan John
Apr 01 '15, 9:00 a.m.
 Hi Mathieu, Thanks for the input. I am not good in Java, can you provide more details on this or shall the Java program? Regards, Tojan.

Mathieu Defianas
Apr 01 '15, 4:05 p.m.
Tojan, You must use for example the library "httpclient" from apache to send data to RTC with some urls. Then, read this article (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/rational-team-concert-oslc/ ) to construct your java program. Last step, you must retrieve the report url with a right click in the web site Regards, Mathieu

Monali Jambhulkar
Aug 11 '16, 6:14 a.m.
 Hi Mathieu, Could you please help to understand how to use REST API to call report url. If you have any sample code/application then can you please share with me. I am new for REST API. Thanks Monali

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