Problem using ServerSocket in an Applet

[Dermot Curley]

Hi
Can anybody tell me why the following piece of code wont work. It is a basic serverSocket that runs in the start method of an applet. I'm guessing that it is an applet issue because I took it out and ran it in a standalone app no problem. The connecting client runs from the same machine as the server. Looking at the stack trace it seems like the ServerSocket is not binding.

 public void start(){
Socket connection = null;
try{
ServerSocket waitForWork = new ServerSocket(4444);                                                                                                                     
  while(true){
 connection = waitForWork.accept();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));

   while(true) {
String message = in.readLine();

if (message==null) break;
if (message.equals("hello")){
response = "welocme";
}
    }
 connection.close(); 
}   
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            System.out.println("Don't know about host");
         }catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
                
}

Any help would be great