UDP Sockets Messenger App

Table of Contents

• Features
• Libraries Used
• Project Setup
• Future Scope

Description

This is a chat application created with Java using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP at the transport layer)

Live Demo

A live interactive demo can be found below.

Features

• Group Chat
   a user can join a global group chat and broadcast messages to all clients in the group chat
  
   At the moment the application can serve more than 10 clinets in a group chat.
  

• Retreive older messages
   Users can access older messages from previous chats with any client they wish to
  

• Additional features can be found in the report
  

Libraries Used

• Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) + Java Swing
• Java's concurrency library
• Datagram Packets and DatagramSockets from java.net

Project setup

To run this project make sure you have downloaded and installed java. Then run the Makefile with the commandsDownload and install Java.

make runServer       // Runs a server GUI with instructions to start the server
make runClient      //  Run this command two separate terminals to create an instance of a client

Future Scope

• Send and display all sorts of files including images and videos
• Improve the graphical user interface (more elegant design)
• Add password/security to the application

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