When opera 6.1 gets installed, the paths in the opera.policy file (/opt/opera/share/opera/java/opera.policy) are not changed from the image-path (/var/tmp/...) to the final ones (/opt/opera/...). This kept java from working on my machine.
Opera-static is being phased-out. You can use the updated net-www/opera ebuild to install either static and dynamically linked versions. I think that we have Java figured out correctly in that ebuild. Please try the 'opera' ebuild. If it doesn't work out, feel free to reopen this bug.
works great, right out of the box ;-) thx