I have done a fair amount of work in the last year on my KBtextmaster product (although not in the last 5 months due to a consulting contract). I hope to release version 4 next spring. For previous versions I did my R&D in Common Lisp, then converted to Java (bigger market!). While I may eventually do a Java port, I decided that I would rather stick with Common Lisp and go for maximum features and performance for the next release.

I did just formed a VAR relationship with Franz to use their Allegro Common Lisp for development and deployment. Allegro has support for compiling to a library that is accessible from Java applications, so that may be be OK for Java customers. The high runtime performance of Allegro is amazing.