Application UI Design using Swing or JSP

I am in the Design phase of my first project. the technology involved is not defined and the team(of 2) is not sure what would be best to use. we got to work on a staging table. mostly updating it. one complete partition(can have as many as 100K rows) has to be displayed in the UI. once it is updated the effected rows need to be inserted/updated to another permanent table, both in Oracle.
so in short, the GUI should allow sorting and filtering options to the user to work on the staging table records. I am not sure how JSP's will fit into this piture. the network traffic is a big concern here.
we might go with Swing Jtable. will that be feasible for this kind of UI? also can this be implemented using MVC(can be struts?) or just Model 1 architecture should do?
I thought of using hibernate for the ORM but the DBA told that the schema is a bit conplex to work with hibernate. so i might be using plain JDBC prepare statements.
can anyone put some light based on there experience.
suggestion and views are welcome!

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import java.io.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.beans.*;
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* LoginGUIdemox.java
* Created on 29 November 2002, 18:59
* @author administrator
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