• Features
• Libraries Used
• Project Setup
• Future Scope

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

A live interactive demo can be found below.

• 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
  

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

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

• 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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