How do I find which application is using up my port?

On the command prompt, do:

netstat -nb

To see which ports are available on your machine run:

C:>  netstat -an |find /i "listening"

How about netstat?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907980

The command is netstat -anob.

(Make sure you run command as admin)

I get:

C:\Windows\system32>netstat -anob

Active Connections

     Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State           PID
  TCP           0.0.0.0:80                0.0.0.0:0                LISTENING         4
 Can not obtain ownership information

  TCP    0.0.0.0:135            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       692
  RpcSs
 [svchost.exe]

  TCP    0.0.0.0:443            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       7540
 [Skype.exe]

  TCP    0.0.0.0:445            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    0.0.0.0:623            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       564
 [LMS.exe]

  TCP    0.0.0.0:912            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4480
 [vmware-authd.exe]

And If you want to check for the particular port, command to use is: netstat -aon | findstr 8080 from the same path

It may be possible that there is no other application running. It is possible that the socket wasn't cleanly shutdown from a previous session in which case you may have to wait for a while before the TIME_WAIT expires on that socket. Unfortunately, you won't be able to use the port till that socket expires. If you can start your server after waiting for a while (a few minutes) then the problem is not due to some other application running on port 8080.