Dan ... actually a post on the status of nsjava good.
Michael and Dan .. I think the flakiness had to do with JVM issues. Didn't the IBM JVM crash at some point while the Sun one worked, or vice-versa, due to some issues with running in a threaded environment?
That's how I remember the flakiness, it wasn't with ns_java per se but with one or more JVM releases available at the time.
Now Dan's going to tell me that if I weren't lazy and RTFM'd over at his nsjava sourceforge project I wouldn't need to suggest posting any status information in our forums :)