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The linux kernel has had support for reading NTFS filesystems for a while now (from 2.2.x I think..). Writing to NTFS filesystems is another story and is not safe. Your distribution of linux may already support reading NTFS in the form of a loadable module. If it doesn't then you'd have to recompile your kernel with builtin support for NTFS or compile a new kernel with NTFS as a module.
You can check if its already supported by doing the following as root:
modprobe ntfs
mount /dev/(some_ntfs_partition) /mnt/ntfs
Make sure /mnt/ntfs exists though.
modprobe loads modules. You may not have to do modprobe ntfs if your kernel has it built in. (but most distro kernels don't.)
My guess on the java rpm is that it installed the software in some location that is not in your path.
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