Problem with running test example with Cassandra 0.7.4

[Anda P]

Hello, 

I have set up my single node Cassandra 0.7.4 and started the service with
bin/cassandra -f. Now I am trying to use the Hector API (v. 0.7.0) to manage the
DB. 
The Cassandra CLI works fine and I can create keyspaces and so on.

I tried to run the test example and create a single keyspace:

Cluster cluster = HFactory.getOrCreateCluster("TestCluster",
                                new 
CassandraHostConfigurator("localhost:9160"));
                
                Keyspace keyspace = HFactory.createKeyspace("Keyspace1", 
cluster);


But all I get is this:

2011-04-14 22:20:27,469 [main      ] INFO 
me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.CassandraHostRetryService  
- Downed Host
Retry service started with queue size -1 and retry delay 10s
2011-04-14 22:20:27,492 [main      ] DEBUG
me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HThriftClient  -
 Transport open status false
for client CassandraClient<localhost:9160-1>
....this again about 20 times
me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.JmxMonitor  - Registering JMX
me.prettyprint.cassandra.service_TestCluster:ServiceType=hector,
MonitorType=hector
2011-04-14 22:20:27,636 [Thread-0  ] INFO 
me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.CassandraHostRetryService  - 
Downed Host
retry shutdown hook called
2011-04-14 22:20:27,646 [Thread-0  ] INFO 
me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.CassandraHostRetryService  - 
Downed Host
retry shutdown complete


Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong? 

Thank you, 
Anda Popovici