applet for mud connection

I was wondering if anybody could help me get started in creating an applet to connect to a mud. Should be similiar to chat. If anybody can help reply or email me at [email protected].

Take a look at the Socket class, and hook it into a BufferedReader.

I tried that but the socket won't connect to anything. here is the code:

String address;

Socket socket=null;
InputStreamReader isr=null;
BufferedReader in=null;
PrintWriter out=null;
address= "ros.wolfpaw.net";
//attempting to connect to server
try{
socket=new Socket(address, portnum);

isr=new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream());
in=new BufferedReader(isr);
out=new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(),true);
}
catch(IOException e){
System.err.println("Error: Could not create stream socket " + e.getMessage());
System.exit(1);
}

Hang on, I'll search out a chat example and email it to you.

Thanks, I appreciate it