Which tool/plug-in can be used to copy files from remote location in least possible time?

My need is to copy some of the zipped files from remote location to my machine and then unzip it in specific location. By which way it can be achieved in fastest way? Are there any open source tool already available for that? I know about Robocopy, but is there any other tool also, better than Robocopy?

I'm using windows xp operating system. I have to do this inside my eclipse application, so I need the tool or any plugin which I can easily incorporate in my eclipse a开发者_开发技巧pplication.

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Related to adarshr's answer, you could use the Apache Commons IO or NET projects (see http://commons.apache.org/). Or if you want something with paid support you could use JScape. These are Java API's that allow you to do IO and FTP'ing. Then you could use either the java.util.zip classes for zipping/unzipping, or the Apache Compress project. Any of these options gives you flexibility at the Java programming level.

You probably need an FTP client such as Filezilla.

For working with remote files from within eclipse, take a look at the RSE (Remote System Explorer) Plugin