I found the problem. So if anyone else has it here is the fix.
In the documentation distributed with JPype 0.5.1 in the examples/linux
directory, there is a file that describes a problem with loading the
jvm on linux. So one needs to modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
variable to fix it.
I
I have been trying out jpype for python to java work and love it. It
works great on my gentoo box with the java 1.4.2 blackdown sdk.
I am now trying it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for access to business
intelligence tools (JasperReports, Mondrian, Pentaho, etc) for which we
don't have analogous
