Now with Google's Web Toolkit and some unfortunates such as myself who only know Lisp (and some Basic), maybe the approach of translating from Lisp into Java is

Now with Google's Web Toolkit and some unfortunates such as myself who only know Lisp (and some Basic), maybe the approach of translating from Lisp into Java is the way to go instead of trying to learn Java. (Having a partner who knows Java well is a good thing however)