This is a fun project I did while I was a kid to get a taste of developing a GUI application in Java. This project has no relevance as a consumable application as it lacks the capabilities of a good network chat application and security one would expect, but it may help as a explorable example for the new learners who wish to have a glance at examples. I'm not modifying the code and I've kept it as it was back when I created it.
This application is a simple text based chat application over TCP sockets in Java, with a support for just two people, and with a poorly designed User Interface and a lot of bugs and security issues. The project is divided into two sub-projects, ChatServer and ChatClient, the ChatServer part is the code for running the server and ChatClient part is the code for running the client which would communicate with the server.
- JDK 1.7 or above
- Apache Ant 1.9.16 or above
This project was made using Netbeans IDE and both the sub-projects can be easily opened, build and explored using Netbeans. But, they can even be built using ant by first changing directory into the respective sub-projects and then running,
ant jarAfter the build is complete, the executable jar file would get created into dist directory.
Once the jar files are created for each of the sub-projects, we can continue by first running the ChatServer which would host our chat over the network.
java -jar ChatServer/dist/ChatServer.jarThen, setup the server by providing it with a name and a port number.
Once the server is running, it's time to run the ChatClient which would connect to the server over the network on the provided port number and the hostname / ip address of the ChatServer instance.
java -jar ChatClient/dist/ChatClient.jarWhen both are setup, we can use the crappy GUI to chat using the server and client.
This project is under WTFPL License