The goal of Slipper is to control peer to peer applications on a remote server. This might be of some use to people behind firewalls and proxies and are being banned on some ports (ie napter, gnutella), but ftp and telnet ports are still available.
A MUD client completely written in java. It is especially designed for use with the Discworld MUD (discworld.atuin.net) but can be used with any other text based MUD. The program can parse ANSI colour control characters to enable coloured output.