Indeed, The BeOS Journal has managed to hold an extensive interview with rocket scientist (NASA computer scientist, to be precise) Andrew Bachmann, who announced that he is one of the developers working on BeUnited's Java port. From page 4 on he gives additional details about this port. Apart from that he works on an immense number of other applications, which include BeShare, ffmpeg, OBOS' Media Kit, etc.

He tells was introduced to BeOS during the R3 era but did not have any PPC-based machines. It took him till BeOS R5 before he tried R5 PE, and as a result bought R5 Pro. He does not have too much expectations about BeOS at the moment, and is careful in expressing his opinion about Zeta, which seems to be that he feels yellowTAB chose featurism over usefulism, although they are doing a good job trying to fix flaws, and making a good move allowing people to experience Zeta themselves.