Thank you for the information. Please bear with my lack of knowledge in networking related issues.Let me explain my situation better.
In my environment, I can not do a ftp to any of the servers from my win2k desktop. To login to these servers, I use putty to connect to one particular machine which gives a number during the autorization to which I have to match with a number generated at that moment on a hardware token given to me. Once this is done I have to connect to a few of the machines again using putty. I login to yet other machines through some of these. This is the hopping I am talking about. To reach a machine z I go through a y and then to z using ssh in each stage. For example, I cannot access the appservers's admin consoles from my win2k unless I tunnel through putty. And that I can do only a few at a time. I have occasion to monitor more than 10 admin consoles at a time, to give you an idea. If I can make it happen it can save a lot of manual work. Now tell me, How can my swing application acheive the consolidation of all this.
Appreciate your help.
sri