To save your future nails from torture, check out the deployment requirements in the DBX docs, specifically the Java section: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/1.1.5/DeployDBX/Deploymentrequirements#Java_Runtime_Environment_.28JRE.29
That says 1.6 or 1.7 Standard Edition, not 1.8 or server.
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