Mac OS X  - Port 80 Permissions

I have written a small webserver in Java and am trying to get it to run on port 80 in Mac OS X.  I get a "java.net.BindException: Permission denied" error which must mean that the logged-in user does not have permission to open a port on 80...or anything below 1024 for that matter.  Now my question is this:

1)  Is is possible to change the user permissions on Mac OS X to allow this?  If so, how are they changed?
2)  If they cannot be changed, is running it from root the only way to get it to bind to 80?

Thanks,
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