Opera and Java Woes

[elboricua]

Hello all. I have been fighting with opera for several days now trying to get java working. I am at my wits end here. I have the sun-jdk java installed. It works fine in Mozilla, and konqueror but it refuses to work in opera.

I did the following within opera to try and get it working:
1. Click on File ==> Preferences
2. Click on Multimedia to expand the tree and choose plugins
3. I then click on modify path
4. I add /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01/jre/plugin/i386/ns4/ to the path
5. Java is picked up. It looks weird but it shows in the plugins.
6. I try to go to a page that has java and no applet loads.
7. I open opera in a terminal window to see what if anything is being reported. I get the error listed below.

[elboricua]

Well I got it fixed. I removed opera and I installed lesstif. It is playing nice with openmotif (so far anyway), and then I installed opera again. All of my plugins work again.

BTW I found the lessfif source here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8596
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Boricua Hasta La Muerte

[ormi]

I've exactly the same problem! I unemerged opera and openmotif. Then I compiled javaplugin (followed the instructions in mozilla 1.1 javaplugin -thread in newbies section) and emerged opera, lesstif and openmotif. Still I've those same weird symbols before Java-plugin text what Megatron had (in preferences-> plugins).

Plugin works great in mozilla & own-compiled phoenix, but not with opera. I've also tried blackdown-jre, but still java no go.

Phoenix is also good, but it has very much problems with javascript. Opera is a great browser, but because of java issues I can't use it much . Any hints?

[ormi]

Problem solved! I'd to edit /usr/bin/opera. I added my java-dir to OPERA_JAVA_DIR and made some symbolic links.