README.md

RMI-based Chat System

Table of contents

• Authors
• Assignment description
• General info
• Features
• Screenshots
• Info

Authors

• Romeo Permentier
• Nick Braeckman

Assignment description

Implement a simple chat-system with following features:

• Server: is responsible for communication between users and keeps track of online users.
• Client: asks a username on startup. (Duplicate usernames are forbidden and therefore blocked)
• Private chat: chatting with someone who is online in the room must be possible.

Features

Private chat

• send private messages to 1 person at a time
• reading all the private messages, coming from all private users
• show received private messages after reopening the chat system

Public chat

• click on a username to open the private chat and send messages to that user

Login screen

• choose a username and chat server

Run the chat system

1. Download the jar's

2. Execute the jar's in the following order:

   • Server: java -jar Server.jar <portnumber>

   • Client: java -jar Client.jar

Clone the project

1. Clone project from github

2. Import project

   • Project JDK: 1.8.0_241
   • Project Language Level: 8

3. Setup 2 modules:

   • Client Module
   • Server Module

4. Run configurations:

   • Program arguments Server: <portnumber>

Screenshots

More Info

• Java RMI