threading in server connection

[niteangell21]

I am getting Exception. "connection refused" while trying to connect to my server. I implemented threading in my server and looks like something wrong. I am new to threading and not sure if i did right. These are my codes.. plzz some take a look.

public class server implements Runnable{

       ServerSocket server = null;
        Socket socket = null;
        ObjectInputStream in = null;
        ObjectOutputStream out = null;

    public static void main(String args[]) {


       ServerSocket server = null;

        try {
            //create socket
            server = new ServerSocket(5000, 100);

            System.out.println("Waiting for connection");
        }catch (IOException ex) {
                Logger.getLogger(server.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            }

       server myServer = new server();
       Thread myThread = new Thread(myServer);
       myThread.start();

    }

    public void run(){
          boolean exit = false;
            while (!exit) {
            try {
                //accept nxt connection request
                socket = server.accept();
                System.out.println("Connection received from " + socket.getInetAddress().getHostName());
                //get input and output streams
                out = new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
                in = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
                System.out.println("Connection successfull");
                //reading input string
                String inputStr = (String) in.readObject();
                System.out.println("client> " + inputStr);
                if (!inputStr.equals("exit")) {
                    if (inputStr.equals("john")) {
                        out.writeObject("Granted");
                    } else {
                        out.writeObject("Denied");
                    }
                } else {
                    exit = true;
                    out.writeObject("exiting");
                }
                //close connection
                in.close();
                out.close();
                socket.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                Logger.getLogger(server.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                server.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                Logger.getLogger(server.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            }
        }

    }
    }
}

[niteangell21]

never mind I fixed it.