I realized that a call to ServerSocket.accept in the start() method is causing a block. I need to create a new thread for execution of the ServerSocket part.

I have heard of some people doing this - I keep getting JNDI errors (because the socket or its parent needs to be accessible by other beans, yet I'm having some trouble getting the class which contains the ServerSocket to serialize properly for JNDI.

I know a number of people out there have done this - do you ahve examples or a place to point me?

Thanks