Bug 136818 [Deployment]NPE when preview report after deploy birt.war in Weblogic9
Description: NPE when preview report after deploy birt.war in Weblogic9 Steps to reproduce: 1. Deploy birt.war in WebLogic 9 2. Visit index.jsp and click link to view test.rptdesign. Result: Error 500--Internal Server Error java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.ReportEngineService.setEngineContext(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.ViewerServlet.doGet(Unknown Source) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:214) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:120) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:272) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:165) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3022) at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321) at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:1925) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:1848) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1288) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:207) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:179)
viewer/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer/birt/WEB-INF/classes/org/eclipse/birt/report/context/ViewerAttributeBean.java
{
			
			paramValueObj = this.parameterMap.get( paramName );
			
			paramValueObj = ParameterValidationUtil.getDisplayValue( null,
					parameter.getPattern( ), paramValueObj, locale );
		}
		if ( paramValueObj != null )
			paramValue = paramValueObj.toString( );
		return paramValue;
	}
	/**
	 * get parsed parameters as string.
	 * 
	 * @param parameterList
	 *            Collection
	 * @param request
	 *            HttpServletRequest
	 * @param options
	 *            InputOptions
	 * 
	 * @return Map
	 */
	protected Map getParsedParametersAsString( Collection parameterList,
			HttpServletRequest request, InputOptions options )
			throws ReportServiceException
	{
		assert parameterList != null;
		Map params = new HashMap( );
		for ( Iterator iter = parameterList.iterator( ); iter.hasNext( ); )