I wish I had a pound for every time someone re-implemented a Java API class / method and made it worse in the process. This is quite a bad one, though!

Sleep for X seconds: ping -n X -w 1000 ADDRESS_THAT_IS_ROUTABLE_BUT_WILL_NOT_RESPOND_TO_ICMP > NUL

They should probably just have let the webserver do that part... I mean, it is designed to fetch files and send them, no need to reinvent the square wheel. Also, they need to upgrade, that's windows 2000 server.