Socket and how to launch thread for receiving socket messages

[newbiejava]

Hello All,

I am new to Java and I am writing socket programming, how to launch thread for receiving message?
please help

thanks & regards
newbiejava

import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.net.Socket;

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(this.jTextField1.getText(),":");

String ip = st.nextToken();
int port = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());

try {
        socket = new Socket(ip, port);
} catch (UnknownHostException ex) {

} catch (IOException ex) {

}

[Norm]

Do you have a question about your code?