Chat-Application

This is a multi-threaded chat server and client implementation in Java
Multiple clients can connect to the server simultaneously (a new service thread handles each new client at server side)
Server assigns a unique id to each client
Following functionalities are available to each client:
1. Client X: <message> delivers message to client with id X
2. All: <message> delivers message to all present clients (aka broadcast)
3. Client X,Y: <message> delivers message to clients with ids X,Y only
4. Server: List All requests the server to reply with the list of all currently connected clients

src/ contains the source code
- src/Server.java and src/Client.java contain the server and client, respectively
- src/ClientServiceThread.java is the Runnable (thread) used by Server (one per client)
compile.sh bash shell-script can be used to compile both server and client from source

First compile by cd-ing into the root of this repository and then running command ./compile.sh
To start the server,
- Execute java -classpath bin Server <port_no> where port_no is the port number at which you want to start the server
- For example, execute java -classpath bin Server 1024 if server is to be started at port number 1024
To start a client (you can start and connect multiple clients),
- Execute java -classpath bin Client <ip_addr> <port_no> where ip_addr, port_no are IP address of server and port number, respectively
- For example, execute java -classpath bin Client 192.168.1.15 1024 is server's IP is 192.168.1.15 and port number is 1024

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