Crystal Reports (Web Viewer) Configuration Problem

Hi,
I am trying to show a simple report via JSP. But it gives an error that I could not understand. I think it is related with configuration files. Any recommendations would be helpful!
The error's print stack trace and my configuration file's contents are below.
Thanks in advance.
[15.04.2005 11:11:09:570 EEST] 200a3132 WebGroup E SRVE0026E: [Servlet Error]-[Failed to setup the formula service!]: com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.lib.ReportSDKException: Failed to setup the formula service!---- Error code:-2147467259 Error code name:failed
 at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.lib.ReportSDKException.throwReportSDKException(Unknown Source)
 at com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportengineinterface.JPEReportSource.<init>(Unknown Source)
 at com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportengineinterface.JPEReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
 at com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportengineinterface.JPEReportSourceFactory.createReportSource(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.jsp._deneme._jspService(deneme.jsp :4)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:89)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:344)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:669)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:767)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictServletInstance.doService(StrictServletInstance.java:110)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictLifecycleServlet._service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:174)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.IdleServletState.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:313)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictLifecycleServlet.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:116)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletInstance.service(ServletInstance.java:283)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ValidServletReferenceState.dispatch(ValidServletReferenceState.java:42)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletInstanceReference.dispatch(ServletInstanceReference.java:40)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.handleWebAppDispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:983)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.dispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:564)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:200)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebAppInvoker.doForward(WebAppInvoker.java:119)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebAppInvoker.handleInvocationHook(WebAppInvoker.java:276)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.cache.invocation.CachedInvocation.handleInvocation(CachedInvocation.java:71)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.cache.invocation.CacheableInvocationContext.invoke(CacheableInvocationContext.java:116)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srp.ServletRequestProcessor.dispatchByURI(ServletRequestProcessor.java:186)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.oselistener.OSEListenerDispatcher.service(OSEListener.java:334)
 at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.http.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:56)
 at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.readAndHandleRequest(HttpConnection.java:618)
 at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.run(HttpConnection.java:439)
 at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:672)
Crystal-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<crystal-configuration>
 <shared-location>
 <crystal-jar-location>C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.5</crystal-jar-location>
 </shared-location>
 <build-language>
 en
 </build-language>
 <build-number>
 10
 </build-number>
</crystal-configuration>
CrystalReportEngine-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><CrystalReportEngine-configuration>
<reportlocation>../..</reportlocation>
<timeout>10</timeout>
<keycode>A2960-01C00EA-00000YK</keycode></CrystalReportEngine-configuration>
helloworld.jsp (code part)
 String report = "helloWorld.rpt";
 IReportSourceFactory2 rptSrcFactory = new JPEReportSourceFactory();
 IReportSource reportSource = (IReportSource) rptSrcFactory.createReportSource(report, request.getLocale());
 CrystalReportViewer viewer = new CrystalReportViewer();
 viewer.setReportSource(reportSource);
 viewer.refresh();
 viewer.processHttpRequest(request, response, getServletConfig().getServletContext(), out);
 viewer.dispose();//-----------------------------------------------------------
I use WepSphere, Crystal Reports 10.
My web project folder hierarchy:
/WebContent/WEB-INF/classes/Crystal-config.xml
/WebContent/WEB-INF/classes/CrystalReportEngine-config.xml
/WebContent/crystalreportviewers10/
/WebContent/helloworld.jsp
/WebContent/helloworld.rpt
Any information would be greately appreciated!!
Thanks,
Ismail.

Hi,
Yes I have copied all the far files into web-inf/lib directory. I think .jar files are not the problem. But I can try any proposal about this. Because I have to solve this problem.
If you have any idea please tell me.
isturk.

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