MATLAB startup crashes with El Capitan OS X

I just upgraded my mac system to El Capitan and with Matlab 2014b I have the same problem that the users with Matlab 2014a and earlier had with Yosemite:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/28842429/2984179

I tried to solve this issue by following this

https://youtu.be/GoQnzIyOkB0

but I am not happy with changing my OS X version as I am not sure about the consequences. Is there any other way that I can solve this problem? For what it is worth, I transferred MATLAB 2014b from my Mavericks by Time Machine. I tried to fix the problem with these patches

http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1098655

but there is no 2014b version and after running the patch is complains about the right version. Here is the screenshot of the error:

Answer 1

[Anish Mitra]

This might be because of the Java version that R2014b is using. Can you start MATLAB with the "-nodesktop" flag, and then check the Java version :

>> version -java

This should be 1.7.0_55.

If it is not then you could check the following :

1) The MATLAB_JAVA environment variable is set. You can check this by opening up Terminal and typing the following:

echo $MATLAB_JAVA

If this is set, you will need to find where it is set and remove that command. You can remove it from an individual Terminal session with the command:

unset MATLAB_JAVA

And then launch MATLAB with:

/Applications/MATLAB_R2014b.app/bin/matlab

2) If MATLAB_JAVA was not set, it may be set by the shortcut you are using to launch MATLAB. You may have to delete this shortcut and create a new one.

3) If starting MATLAB from the Terminal in which MATLAB_JAVA is not set still causes the issue, it is possible that there is a softlink or shortcut in your Java folder located here:

/Applications/MATLAB_R2014b.app/sys/Java/jre/maci64/

The only folder in there should be 'jre' and it should not be a shortcut or softlink.