Some Noob Questions


Any examples of well-known apps written in Java (such as Vuze, for one)? Particularly anything that involves networking and/or security. For instance, IIRC, the mozilla projects are written in C++ - although the addons (again, IIRC) are generally done in Java. Why?

I'm glancing around, trying to decide which language would be best to pick up for several purposes -
Need to occasionally put together a web-app for the organization I work for - so far have been cobbling things together using Javascript and PHP. Security is an issue - would like to write secure code, of course - would J2EE be suitable for these sort of apps? Basically, I occasionally have to put together some kind of database-driven dynamic page that's truly fairly simple/straightforward (use MySQL for database) - the emphasis here is placed on function rather than aesthetics.

Need to do some System Administration work that requires occasional scripting - I know Java isn't a scripting language, but would it work for throwing together occasional apps to make changes to clients, or check various features of their systems (whether new processes are running, changing host files, checking size of a few directories, stuff like that). I've been looking at python a bit for this, (and Django as a possible framework for the pages I mentioned above) - but have some reservations. Any compare/contrast comments would be greatly appreciated.

Eventually would be interested in writing basic firewall apps and a few other things along those lines - related to network security.

What I want, basically, is the best language for writing networking apps, with an eye toward security. Hope this is all making sense.

Thanks for any suggestions. Noob flaming, as always, rolls off my back - have at it, haha. I have some programming experience, and a good amount of network administration experience (although, if I told y'all how I ass-backed into this job, you'd probably laugh your collective asses off), but want to get more deeply into the security side of things - like to learn new things, and have a lot of extra time on my hands for reading, working through examples, etc - had a CS minor as an undergrad, but kinda got away from the whole thing in grad school, and only programming classes were in C/C++ and Cobol (lol). I'm looking at this over a "years" time line - really want to choose one language and learn it well, but want to make sure I've picked one that's suitable for what I'd like to do, long-term. Hope that makes sense. TIA!

Cheers.
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