Currently you don't need java unless you plan on using webmail. If you want to try it, get the nsjava aolserver module from
http://nsjava.sourceforge.net and install it. Note which jdk's have been tested. Some of them like sun's jdk on linux are totally broken for jni work. After setting up nsjava follow the webmail installation intructions in the webmail.html file. You can ignore any references to oracle and sqlj. If run into any problems let me know.