<route>
	    <description>Generate Report</description>
		<from uri="file:C:\dir\to\watch\"/>
		<setHeader headerName="reportPath">
    		<constant>C:\path\to\report\report.rptdesign</constant>        
  		</setHeader>
		<bean ref="processor" method="generateDocument"/>
	</route>

	public void generateDocument(Exchange exchange)
	{
		processorLogger.debug("--------------------     Generating PDF Document from Report     --------------------");
		Element root = exchangeToElement(exchange);
		String reportPath = exchange.getIn().getHeaders().get("reportPath").toString();
		String id = null;
		List<Element> updatedItems = root.getChildren();
		
		for (Element item : updatedItems) {
			if (item.getAttribute("name").equals("id")) {
				id = item.getChild("new").getValue();
				break;
			}
		}
		
		// call birt report with id, return PDF doc generated by birt
		DocGenerator generator = new DocGenerator();
		File pdfDoc = generator.createDoc(id, reportPath);

		// update exchage with pdfDoc
	}

public class DocGenerator {
	private IReportEngine engine;

	public DocGenerator() {
		try {
			EngineConfig config = new EngineConfig();
			Platform.startup(config);
			IReportEngineFactory factory = (IReportEngineFactory) Platform.createFactoryObject(IReportEngineFactory.EXTENSION_REPORT_ENGINE_FACTORY);

			engine = factory.createReportEngine(config);
			System.out.println("Birt report engine is up and running.");
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			System.out.println("Error instantiating the DocGenerator class");
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public void close() {
		// destroy the engine.
		try {
			engine.destroy();
			Platform.shutdown();
			RegistryProviderFactory.releaseDefault();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// Ignore
		}
	}
	
	public File createDoc(String id, String reportPath) {
		String output = null;
		try {
			IReportRunnable report = engine.openReportDesign(reportPath);
			IRunAndRenderTask task = engine.createRunAndRenderTask(report);
			ByteArrayOutputStream oStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
			HashMap parameters = new HashMap();
			parameters.put("id", id);
			
                        // this method is not included, but it assigns the id to the birt report parameter, this works fine.
			setTaskParameters(report, task, parameters);
			
			PDFRenderOption pdfOptions = new PDFRenderOption();
			
			pdfOptions.setOutputStream(oStream);
			// pdfOptions.setOutputFileName(fullDesiredFilePath);
			pdfOptions.setEmbededFont(false);
			pdfOptions.setOutputFormat("pdf");
			task.setRenderOption(pdfOptions);
			
			// save doc in memory, don't write it to file system
			task.run();
			task.close();
			output = oStream.toString();

                        // this is what I have so far but I'm obviously working in the wrong direction since this still creates a file in the file system.
                       // I was thinking of creating a temporary File using the OutputStream because I still have the oStream in memory at this point
			File temp = File.createTempFile("birt-pdf", ".pdf");
			temp.deleteOnExit();
			BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(temp));
			out.write(output);
			out.close();
			
			return temp;
		} catch (EngineException | IOException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		} 
	}
}