Jview and ServerSocket...

I have run into an interesting scenario.... and I was mainly wondering two things...
1- Has anyone else experienced this?
2- Has anyone else found a solution?
Here is what I have discovered.
Running a ServerSocket in Jview produces a registered ServerSocket, but then you cannot actually connect to it from the outside.... it is some type of "Unknown host" or "No route to host" exception on the client end?
Is this related to M$'s "embrace and extend" lawsuit settlement?
Is there a work-around? (-->Yeah, I know.. use the Java Runtime Environment provided by Sun)
~Dave'

OK... here's the deal...
It works when both ends are running (The Server and the Client) in Sun's JRE. I have not checked it with both sides running in the MVM (jview)...
What has failed is this...
Jview running the ServerSocket
Java running the Client that connects to it.
It definitely fails this way, and I am not quite sure why...
My 'client' end running in the JRE attempts to create a socket to his Server end *running in Jview on Win98. It fails and resorts to a fallback method to get a connection.... But the output logs tell me certainly that the connection the way it was intended did not work with this VM combination, despite the fact that it works with the other..
(It took us a while to figure out what had happened to make it stop working, and the he told me he had ran the "RunTest_with_Jview.bat" file instead of the "RunTest_with_JRE.bat"...)
I could provide the failing code --> except for the fact that the entire application consists of approx 80 Java files... ;-)
I could provide a minimalist test suite and e-mail it to you?
Thanks for the try at helping me..
((Is there a Jview update for the Win98 second edition or something that we are missing??))
~Dave
[email protected]

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