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

To resolve this problem I changed $JAVA_HOME environment variable to the path I found it from:

System Preferences -> Java -> java (tab in Java Control Panel) -> View -> Path

I had two version of java and the default one was the old version of java.