Serious Question Here

I've been tasked with writing a web application.  I have access to a mySQL database and an apache server.

This application will allow users to submit reports containing multiple text fields, radio boxs, and check boxs.  These reports can later be retrieved or compared against one another by other users.

My thoughts were using CGI to do this and having a java program do the SQL stuff.  Would this be the right way of doing a simple application like this, or does java provide something more high level for web development?

Also, this site needs to be accessible by phones, so I can't use applets.

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