Sockets problem HELP!!

Question

I am trying to create a peer-to-peer messager using Sockets. I have a Listener class that listens for connections and accepts them and creates a new socket for each connection and also calls a ChatHandler which is passed the new socket. Exept the StartConv class which connects to the listener class initially never finds out about the new Socket and thinks it is still connected to the listener port :(( Here is some of the code i am trying to use for each of the classes:-
Listener
public class Listener implements Runnable {
  public void run () {
  try{
  listen();
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Error in listener:"+e );
  public static void listen() throws IOException{
    int port = 4444;
    ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket (port);
    try{
    System.out.println("Listening...");
         while (true) {
         System.out.println("Listening...11");
         Socket client = server.accept ();
         System.out.println ("Accepted from " + client.getInetAddress ());
         ChatHandler handler = new ChatHandler (client);
         handler.start ();
  }catch (IOException ex){
  System.out.println("Error in listener"+ex);
ChatHandler
public class ChatHandler extends JFrame implements Runnable {
  protected Socket socket;
  public ChatHandler (Socket socket) {
    this.socket = socket;
  protected DataInputStream dataIn;
  protected DataOutputStream dataOut;
  protected Thread listener;
  public void start () {
  System.out.println("Entered ChatHandler.start()");
      try {
        dataIn = new DataInputStream
          (new BufferedInputStream (socket.getInputStream ()));
        dataOut = new DataOutputStream
          (new BufferedOutputStream (socket.getOutputStream ()));
        listener = new Thread (this);
        listener.start ();
        run();
      } catch (IOException ignored) {
  public synchronized void stop () {
    if (listener != null) {
      try {
        if (listener != Thread.currentThread ())
          listener.interrupt ();
        listener = null;
        dataOut.close ();
      } catch (IOException ignored) {
  public void run () {
  System.out.println("Entered ChatHandler.run()");
try{
        String message = dataIn.readUTF ();
   }catch(IOException e) {   
   System.out.println("Problem receiving message: dataIn.readUTF");
        String title = "Conversation from "+socket.getInetAddress();
    JFrame cframe = new JFrame(title);
    // Create a component to add to the frame
    JPanel top=new JPanel();
    JPanel bottom=new JPanel();
    TextArea conv = new TextArea(10,75);
    TextArea msg = new TextArea(8,75);
top.add(conv);
bottom.add(msg);
    // Add the component to the frame's content pane;
    // by default, the content pane has a border layout
    cframe.getContentPane().add(top, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    cframe.getContentPane().add(bottom, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    // Show the frame
    cframe.setSize(600, 500);
    cframe.setVisible(true);
    stop ();
StartConv
public abstract class StartConv extends JFrame implements Runnable {
public static void run (String userip){
try{
connect(userip);
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Error in StartConv:"+e);
showframe();
public static void showframe(){
String title = "Frame Title";
    JFrame frame = new JFrame(title);
    // Create a component to add to the frame
    JPanel top=new JPanel();
    JPanel bottom=new JPanel();
    TextArea conv = new TextArea(10,75);
    TextArea msg = new TextArea(8,75);
top.add(conv);
bottom.add(msg);
    // Add the component to the frame's content pane;
    // by default, the content pane has a border layout
    frame.getContentPane().add(top, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    frame.getContentPane().add(bottom, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    // Show the frame
    frame.setSize(600, 500);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  protected DataInputStream dataIn;
  protected DataOutputStream dataOut;
  protected Thread listener;
public static void connect (String userip) throws IOException {
      String host=userip;
      int port=4444;
      Socket socket = new Socket (host, port);
      try {
         DataInputStream dataIn = new DataInputStream
          (new BufferedInputStream (socket.getInputStream ()));
         DataOutputStream dataOut = new DataOutputStream
          (new BufferedOutputStream (socket.getOutputStream ()));
      } catch (IOException ex) {
        socket.close ();
        throw ex;
      Thread listener = new Thread ();
      listener.start ();
  }

Answer 1

It says at the top :) think i posted too much code but that way everyone knows exactly what is happening. Cant get the StartConv class to commmunicate with the ChatHandler basically