rocknbil - 4:46 pm on Aug 19, 2011 (gmt 0)

Do you mean Java or Javascript?

Java or Flash would be a good candidate for this because they are in-page "executables" and you can do things you can't do with server side or client side scripting. It would also be more lightweight.

I can visualize doing it with PHP/Perl/ASP/Javascript, a bunch of images and a database connection, but given the choice I'd go with Flash (long time since I worked with Java.)