<p>I added the following dependency in maven for birt reports</p>
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<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span>dependency<span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span><span>groupId</span><span>></span>org.eclipse.birt.runtime<span></</span><span>groupId</span><span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span><span>artifactId</span><span>></span>org.eclipse.birt.runtime<span></</span><span>artifactId</span><span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span>version<span>></span><span>4.3.0</span><span></</span>version<span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span>exclusions<span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span>exclusion<span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span>artifactId<span>></span><span>org.apache.poi</span><span></</span>artifactId<span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span><</span><span>groupId</span><span>></span>org.eclipse.birt.runtime<span></</span><span>groupId</span><span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span></</span>exclusion<span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span></</span>exclusions<span>></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:40px;"><span></</span>dependency<span>></span></p>
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<p class=""><span>The reports are running fine. When I added maps to the birt reports the reports are generating fine from Birt Designer pro. View Reports.. <strong>But</strong> they are throwing the following error when I added the report in my maven project.</span></p>
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<p class="">INFO: ODI query execution: 52 ms</p>
<p class="">Sep 3, 2014 2:46:55 PM org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.EngineTask handleFatalExceptions</p>
<p class="">SEVERE: An error happened while running the report. Cause:</p>
<p class=""><span>java.lang.NullPointerException</span></p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.presentation.LocalizedContentVisitor.processExtendedContent(<span>LocalizedContentVisitor.java:980</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.presentation.LocalizedContentVisitor.localizeForeign(<span>LocalizedContentVisitor.java:591</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.presentation.LocalizedContentVisitor.localize(<span>LocalizedContentVisitor.java:176</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.internal.executor.l18n.LocalizedReportItemExecutor.execute(<span>LocalizedReportItemExecutor.java:37</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(<span>HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:65</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLPageLM.layout(<span>HTMLPageLM.java:92</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLReportLayoutEngine.layout(<span>HTMLReportLayoutEngine.java:100</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.doRun(<span>RunAndRenderTask.java:181</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.run(<span>RunAndRenderTask.java:77</span>)</p>
<p class="">at com.shn.reports.shnreports_Trunk.App.main(<span>App.java:77</span>)</p>
<p class=""><span>org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.EngineException</span><span>: Error happened while running the report.</span></p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.EngineTask.handleFatalExceptions(<span>EngineTask.java:2360</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.doRun(<span>RunAndRenderTask.java:191</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.run(<span>RunAndRenderTask.java:77</span>)</p>
<p class="">at com.shn.reports.shnreports_Trunk.App.main(<span>App.java:77</span>)</p>
<p class=""><span>Caused by: </span><span>java.lang.NullPointerException</span></p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.presentation.LocalizedContentVisitor.processExtendedContent(<span>LocalizedContentVisitor.java:980</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.presentation.LocalizedContentVisitor.localizeForeign(<span>LocalizedContentVisitor.java:591</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.presentation.LocalizedContentVisitor.localize(<span>LocalizedContentVisitor.java:176</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.internal.executor.l18n.LocalizedReportItemExecutor.execute(<span>LocalizedReportItemExecutor.java:37</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(<span>HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:65</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLPageLM.layout(<span>HTMLPageLM.java:92</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLReportLayoutEngine.layout(<span>HTMLReportLayoutEngine.java:100</span>)</p>
<p class="">at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.doRun(<span>RunAndRenderTask.java:181</span>)</p>
<p class="">... 2 more</p>
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<p class="">I believe this is a dependency issue. Suggest me if I need to add more dependencies in my pom.xml.</p>
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<p class="">Thanks</p>
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