All, The issue is that our MySQL DBA had disabled autocommit. The Jasper installer depends on autocommit to populate jasperserver tables... I know this, because with autocommit enabled, everything is fine. Here is how to enable autocommit in the Jasper installer, for anyone else that has this problem. Edit the file buildomatic/conf_source/ieCe/applicationContext-export-config.xml. Find the data source bean. Add this property: <property name="connectionInitSqls"> <list> <value>set autocommit = true</value> </list> </property> Then run the install in the normal way, and jasperserver schema will be populated.