Well, I got the SPOTs working on my system. It was a bit of a pain, but it worked.

1. Uninstall ALL of java, jdk, netbeans, and remove user’s SunSPOT directory.
2. Totally remove /usr/java /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/java-1.4.0 /usr/lib/java-1.4.1 /usr/lib/java-1 …

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