Bug 167267 getParameterDisplayText does not work on MasterPage in PDF
getParameterDisplayText does not seem to work when used on MasterPage. This problem seems to be limited to ReportViewer and PDF format. Table from my testing Deployed to Tomcat View Report in Web Viewer View Report as PDF Format HTML OK OK N/A PDF FAIL FAIL OK Incidentally getParameterDisplayText works fine in all of the above cases if used in footer of table in the report body.
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/executor/ExecutionContext.java
return htmlConfig.getImageHandler( );
				}
			}
		}
		
		return null;
	}
	
	/**
	 * return application class loader.
	 * The application class loader is used to load the report item event handle and 
	 * java classes called in the javascript.
	 * @return class loader
	 */
	public ClassLoader getApplicationClassLoader( )
	{
		return applicationClassLoader;
	}
	/**
	 * the application class loader.
	 * 
	 * The class loader first try to the load the class as following sequence:
	 * <li>1. standard java class loader,
	 * <li>2. classloader setted through the appContext.
	 * <li>3. CLASSPATH setted by WEBAPP_CLASSPATH_KEY
	 * <li>4. PROJECT_CLASSPATH_KEY
	 * <li>5. WORKSAPCE_CLASSPATH_KEY
	 * <li>6. JARs define in the report design
	 */
	static private class ApplicationClassLoader extends ClassLoader