Thanks Guys, but the solution that you are suggesting works with verison prior to birt 3.7.1. With 3.7.1 release of birt runtime, there is plugins folder anymore. Its has been simiplied whole lot and all we have now is ReportEngine/lib. All the jars for runtime are in ths folder now and that's where any new jdbc jars need to be copied. Check out Birt 3.7.1 migration guide if you need more details.