Those languages won't do you much good as they execute inside the realm of a web browser and are not capable of opening applications on your machine.

You are going to need to use something like C# or VB.NET to achieve your desired results.

Wrox has plenty of books on both topics:
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-105059.html
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section...&field=keyword

hth.

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