This is starting to get interesting. The process you are referring to is the SQLFire process. See below for process table entry. That's also being starting with java 1.7. Is there an sqlfire / gemfire relationship?
sqlfire 4447 1 0 00:35 ? 00:03:27 /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_10/jre/bin/java -server -classpath /opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/sqlfire.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/sqlfiretools.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/sqlfireclient.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/jline.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/jna.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/commons-cli.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/ant/ant.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-codec-1.3.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-digester-1.7.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-lang-2.1.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/commons-pool-1.2.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/dom4j-1.4.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/stax-api-1.0.1.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/lib/wstx-asl-3.0.2.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/ddlutils/dist/DdlUtils-1.0.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/commons-logging.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/commons-modeler-2.0.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/mx4j.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/mx4j-remote.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/mx4j-tools.jar:/opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_103/lib/mail.jar com.vmware.sqlfire.tools.internal.SqlfServerLauncher server log-file=/var/log/vmware/sqlfire/sqlfserver.log mcast-port=10334 mcast-address=239.192.81.1 -client-bind-address=192.168.65.132 -client-port=1527