New to Java

Hello everybody!

I am encountering the following problem, when I try to run a program which wants to access the internet. I pasted an extract from the source code here, which I think includes the critical lines:

...
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

class FindLinks {
public static Vector findLinks (String address) throws Exception {
URL u = new URL(address);
InputStream ins = u.openStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(ins);
BufferedReader webPage = new BufferedReader(isr);
...


When I run the complete program, I get the following message:


Exception in thread "main" java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 10106: create
at java.net.Socket.createImpl(Socket.java:313)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:424)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:376)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:139)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:386)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:602)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:303)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:264)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:336)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:317)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:312)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect HttpURLConnection.java:481)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:472)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:574)
at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:960)
at FindLinks.findLinks(FindLinks.java:10)
at FindLinks.main(FindLinks.java:47)


I am using the new Java SDK 1.41 on a Windows XP machine. Does anyone has an idea what might be causing this problem?

Kind regards
Linus