jdk117-v1a and threads

[Schultz, Will]

I must not be doing something right. I downloaded the jdk117-v1a and the
.native for jdk,jre,and rt and 
I ran 'tar -zxf' all from the /root directory so that the packages should
all be at /root/jdk117_v1a

When I run Simplicity I get the error 

Unable to initialize threads: cannot find java/lang/Thread
Could not create Java VM

What am I doing wrong?