Using ServerSocket class
This class is used by servers to listen for connection requests from clients.
When you create a ServerSocket, it listens for connections on the specified port
It is optional to specify a size of queue to queue up connections.


getInetAddress( ) method returns the address of the connecting client.


accept( ) method accepts the requested connection and 
returns a Socket for future communications between client and server.

A common model for network communications is for multiple
clients to send requests to a single server program like Web server.
To accomplish this task I'd recommend to arrange threads for each
client request and form groups of threads for different type of services.

/**
* startServerSocket method is the simplest server socket example.
* We register server socket on a specified port with a specified size of
* connection queue.
* 
* We define DataInputStream and PrintStream to connect later
* to TCP/IP socket Input and output streams.
*
* ... Continuation on the next page ...

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