On OpenVMS, we often have at least 2 people running NetBeans on the same
machine at the same time.  The users  who are not the first to start
NetBeans always get at least one exception while binding a socket for the
HTTP server.  I assume the same thing would happen on any system where more 
than one copy of NetBeans was running concurrently.

It seems to loop, looking for a socket port that is free, starting at
8082...can the "address already in use exception" be silently ignored?

I have reproduced this on other platforms (well, W2K) by just starting multiple 
copies of NetBeans.

Meg

Here's the exception:

java.net.BindException: address already in use
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind (PlainSocketImpl.java:397) (pc 3)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(int,int,java.net.InetAddress)
(ServerSocket.java:170) (pc 79)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(int,int) (ServerSocket.java:121) (pc 4)
        at org.apache.tomcat.net.DefaultServerSocketFactory.createSocket(int,int
) (DefaultServerSocketFactory.java:97) (pc 6)
        at org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpEndpoint.startEndpoint
(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:239) (pc 41)
        at org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpConnector.start
(PoolTcpConnector.java:188) (pc 281)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.start
(ContextManager.java:527) (pc 17)
        at org.netbeans.modules.httpserver.HttpServerModule$1.run
(HttpServerModule.java:106) (pc 10)