Pinging ip's with oracle developer 10g

Question

db and dev 10g rel2 ,
hi all,
i want to ping some ip's through a form built with oracle developer 10g rel2 ,
- i have two choices here ,
-there is an application can ping a lot of ip's automatically , it has options to load a file in which ip's are stored , and another option to save the result into a .csv file ,
so i am searching for a way to control that application , i want a way to do these tasks through a button on my form :
1- open that application .
2 -load the ip's .
3- save the result to a .csv file .
4- transferring the .csv data to a block on my form . -- and this is the simple step which i can do individually , but i do not know how to deal with the steps previously mentioned .
2- the second choice is to open the os command prompt through a button , and ping through it , but the problem is the result would not be displayed in columns , and i do not know a way to load the result into a block on the form.
if you could help me with any of these choices , or if you have another one , i would appreciate that .
thanks in advance

Answer 1

i've tried to use it like it is in the example : , i used only the first two parameters
DECLARE
  c  utl_tcp.connection;  -- TCP/IP connection to the Web server
BEGIN
  c := utl_tcp.open_connection(remote_host => 'www.acme.com',
                               remote_port =>  80); 
end ; by the way , before i posted the thread , i've tried it , but i faced problems while executing it , that's why i asked if it is
suitable for me or not .
when i execute it by the above code , the engine tells me that "procedure successfully completed , but without any result .
2- if you could tell me what does "remote_port" means , because i posted the number in the example as it is .
i do not know what is port ?
3- do you know about a jave bean can do my requirements ?
thanks a lot