CentOS / RHEL 7 has different JAVA_HOME requirements

Here is what /usr/lib/jvm looks like

[root@cc-stagesolr-01 ~]# ls -l /usr/lib/jvm
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   26 May 22 04:58 java -> /etc/alternatives/java_sdk
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   32 May 22 04:58 java-1.7.0 -> /etc/alternatives/java_sdk_1.7.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   40 May 22 04:58 java-1.7.0-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/java_sdk_1.7.0_openjdk
drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 4096 May 22 04:58 java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.79-2.5.5.1.el7_1.x86_64
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   34 May 22 04:58 java-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/java_sdk_openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   21 May 22 04:58 jre -> /etc/alternatives/jre
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   27 May 22 04:58 jre-1.7.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.7.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   35 May 22 04:58 jre-1.7.0-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.7.0_openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   52 May 22 04:58 jre-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.79-2.5.5.1.el7_1.x86_64 -> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.79-2.5.5.1.el7_1.x86_64/jre
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   29 May 22 04:58 jre-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/jre_openjdk

I wonder if we could use "jre-1.7.0" instead to be compatible between EL6 and EL7?

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