cassandra 2 complaining about Java 7 when I have Java 7 installed

Question

$ cassandra 
Cassandra 2.0 and later require Java 7 or later.

OK, what\'s going on in that part of the init script?

java_ver_output=`\         


        

Answer 1

Per documentation: http://wiki.helioviewer.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra_Installation

Set JAVA_HOME

Make sure JAVA_HOME is set: echo $JAVA_HOME

So make sure JAVA_HOME is pointing to /path/to/jdk7