Exception errors with GUI

Question

Hello, I've been working on some Java as part of an engineering project, however my skills with Java aren't great, and my skills with GUI and Networking (which this involves) were only as a user before starting this. A problem that I haven't been able to get around is an exception error when using the actionPerformed method from java.awt.* .
My goal is to be able to, when a button is pushed, send a UDP packet with the command of the button to another PC. My understanding from tutorials is that actionPerformed is the method to use for when buttons are pushed, however creating or using a DatagramSocket inside this method causes an exception error (java.net.SocketException). Normally I would just tell it to throw exceptions, but when trying it says it cannot overwrite the method. I thought I got around this by placing the socket within another method and calling that instead, but that just simply caused a different exception (java.lang.Exception).
Any suggestions on how to make this work, or am I using the wrong method for this sort of thing?
Some code snippets:
Version 1
//when the buttons are pushed, this does the actions required.
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt){     
DatagramSocket socket = new DatagramSocket(11111); //Error here
Object source = evt.getSource();
Version 2
//when the buttons are pushed, this does the actions required.
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt){
Object source = evt.getSource();
byte[] comm;
if (source == Identify) {
     command = "identify";
     comm = command.getBytes();
     this.sendIt(command); //Errors here
     version = this.getIt(); //and here
Version 3
//when the buttons are pushed, this does the actions required.
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)throws Exception { //Error Here
Object source = evt.getSource();
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

you can use the try-catch clause ...
like this:
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
    try{
         if(e.getSource() == myButton)
              // your code here...
       catch(Exception err){
               err.printStackTrace(); // will print the error... read the first line error msg
}