trying to compile and run a servlet in eclipse - errors!

Hello, I am new (again) to java and trying to run some initial tests of servlets in eclipse.  Getting the following errors and completely clueless on them:

Activation.main: warning: sun.rmi.activation.execPolicy system
property unspecified and no ExecPermissions/ExecOptionPermissions
granted; subsequent activation attempts may fail due to unsuccessful
ExecPermission/ExecOptionPermission permission checks.  For
documentation on how to configure rmid security, refer to:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/solaris/rmid.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/win32/rmid.html

Activation.main: an exception occurred: Port already in use: 1098; nested exception is:
      java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind
java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 1098; nested exception is:
      java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.listen(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.exportObject(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.exportObject(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.transport.LiveRef.exportObject(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.exportObject(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl.setup(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry.createRegistry(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.server.Activation.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind
      at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
      at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
      at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source)
      at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createServerSocket(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createServerSocket(Unknown Source)
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newServerSocket(Unknown Source)
      ... 9 more


This is the code:

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;

public class TimeServlet extends HttpServlet {
      public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException,
      IOException {
      response.setContentType("text/plain");
      
      PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
      out.println("this is my first servlet");
      }
}