Using Oracle's 1.7.0_72 fixed this issue. I tried using OpenJDK 1.8.0_31, but that led to the following error:
2015-04-01 12:46:46,183 ERROR ContextLoader,localhost-startStop-1:331 - Context initialization failedorg.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'actionModelService' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1512) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:521) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:296) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:633) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:410) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:306) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:112) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:5016) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5524) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:649) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1245) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1895) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.common.service.impl.ActionModel.generateActionModelDocument(ActionModel.java:193) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.common.service.impl.ActionModelServiceImpl.generateActionModelMenus(ActionModelServiceImpl.java:112) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.common.service.impl.ActionModelServiceImpl.afterPropertiesSet(ActionModelServiceImpl.java:80) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1571) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1509) ... 25 moreCaused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: XPathFactory#newInstance() failed to create an XPathFactory for the default object model: http://java.sun.com/jaxp/xpath/dom with the XPathFactoryConfigurationException: javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactoryConfigurationException: java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory: jar:file:/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/jasperserver-pro/WEB-INF/lib/saxonhe-9.2.1.5.jar!/META-INF/services/javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory:2: Illegal configuration-file syntax at javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory.newInstance(XPathFactory.java:102) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.core.util.XMLUtil.(XMLUtil.java:46) ... 30 more
