I am glad you are curious about it, because me and my team mates are hitting our heads against the wall regarding this. And I would like to get this solved at the earliest. Anyways the following are the details of my setup.
The setup consists of a console, rest, explorer and core.
JAVA : Version 1.7.0_79
OS : Name - mac os x yosemite, Version - 10.10.4, arch - x86_64
Activiti : Version 5.15.1
Play framework : Version 2.2.6
Elasticsearch : Version 0.90.5
Replaced the elasticsearch.yml file (File attached 'elasticsearch.txt')
MySQL : Version 5.6.25 (For the database)
The database contains content for ACT_ID_USER and ACT_GE_PROPERTY. Just basic information for logging in.
IntelliJ Idea 14 Community Edition
Maven : Version 3.3.3
Added a settings file to .m2 folder (File attached 'settings.txt')
Scala : Version 2.11.7
SBT : Version 0.13.8
Tomcat : Version 7
Already provided you with the XML needed to deploy
I have imported and tried to deploy in the explorer application only.
This is pretty much my setup. Installed and moved the necessary files as mentioned above. Ran the code (maven) and then started activiti explorer application. That is where I end up with this error.