Hi guys,

I'm trying to choose / figure out an appropriate language to use to do
live statistical monitoring of a network application. (imagine using the
"top" command in unix, and seeing network activity instead of process
activity). 

I wouldl ike to represent data I can get from the network
appliance (getting the data isn't the problem) onto a web page that people
use. The issue is I'm not sure if Java is the best language to do so, and
if it is, which book(s) should I look at and if not, which language would
be suitable and which books I should by for that...

A good example is like what you see when you check the system statistics
in Windows, and you see CPU usage, Memory Usage, etc. except now I want
statistics from a network (hardware) box that uses Apache Server live
(maybe like new information
evvery five seconds)

Thanks.

-Edward