Good morning and sorry for my late reply.
Yes, I am using jdk 1.8.0_151. This is the output in the log file:
[localhost-startStop-5] 18 Dec 2017 10:09:09,431 ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter.logExceptions:234 - Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
[localhost-startStop-5] 18 Dec 2017 10:09:09,431 ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter.logExceptions:234 - Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
[localhost-startStop-5] 18 Dec 2017 10:09:09,431 ERROR it.eng.spagobi.commons.dao.ConfigDAOHibImpl.loadAllConfigParameters:79 - HibernateException during query
org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Cannot open connection
at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.handledNonSpecificException(SQLStateConverter.java:140)
at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:128)
at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:66)
at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:52)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager.openConnection(ConnectionManager.java:449)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager.getConnection(ConnectionManager.java:167)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext.connection(JDBCContext.java:160)
at org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.begin(JDBCTransaction.java:81)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.beginTransaction(SessionImpl.java:1473)
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.dao.ConfigDAOHibImpl.loadAllConfigParameters(ConfigDAOHibImpl.java:63)
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.SingletonConfigCache.<init>(SingletonConfigCache.java:40)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.SingletonConfig.<init>(SingletonConfig.java:53)
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.SingletonConfig.getInstance(SingletonConfig.java:43)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.Configurator.<init>(Configurator.java:104)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.Configurator.getInstance(Configurator.java:117)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.DataConnectionManager.<init>(DataConnectionManager.java:74)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.DataConnectionManager.getInstance(DataConnectionManager.java:192)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.DataAccessInitializer.init(DataAccessInitializer.java:42)
at it.eng.spago.init.InitializerManager.init(InitializerManager.java:79)
at it.eng.spago.configuration.ConfigServlet.init(ConfigServlet.java:115)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1280)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1088)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5481)
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:634)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1230)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1876)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1429)
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1371)
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:1044)
at org.hibernate.connection.DatasourceConnectionProvider.getConnection(DatasourceConnectionProvider.java:92)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager.openConnection(ConnectionManager.java:446)
... 36 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1702)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1547)
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1420)
... 40 more
[localhost-startStop-5] 18 Dec 2017 10:09:09,446 ERROR it.eng.spagobi.commons.SingletonConfigCache.<init>:48 - Impossible to load configuration for report engine
it.eng.spago.error.EMFUserError: severity [ERROR] description [100]
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.dao.ConfigDAOHibImpl.loadAllConfigParameters(ConfigDAOHibImpl.java:84)
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.SingletonConfigCache.<init>(SingletonConfigCache.java:40)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.SingletonConfig.<init>(SingletonConfig.java:53)
at it.eng.spagobi.commons.SingletonConfig.getInstance(SingletonConfig.java:43)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.Configurator.<init>(Configurator.java:104)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.Configurator.getInstance(Configurator.java:117)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.DataConnectionManager.<init>(DataConnectionManager.java:74)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.DataConnectionManager.getInstance(DataConnectionManager.java:192)
at it.eng.spago.dbaccess.DataAccessInitializer.init(DataAccessInitializer.java:42)
at it.eng.spago.init.InitializerManager.init(InitializerManager.java:79)
at it.eng.spago.configuration.ConfigServlet.init(ConfigServlet.java:115)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1280)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1088)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5481)
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:634)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1230)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1876)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Can you please help me with some solution because I am not familiar with this type of software.