This project encompasses the basics of Network Programming and protocol design and is made in the context of a University project.
ChatFusion is a protocol, a client, and a server at the same type. The protocol itself and its specification is defined in the ChatFusion Protocol Specification (RFC).
Basically, the protocol is a simple text-based chat protocol that also allows servers to fuse to make networks of servers and share their userbase.
To build this project and run both the client and server, you will need to have Java 17 (or a later version) installed on your machine.
In the next commands, I will assume you also have Gradle installed. If not, you can replace the occurrences of gradle
with ./gradlew to run the commands from the project root.
To build the artifacts, run the following command from the root of the project:
gradle clean jarThis will create the runnable artifacts
ChatFusion-client-{version}.jar and ChatFusion-server-{version}.jar
in the executables/ directory.
You can run them as you would with any jar archive:
java -jar ChatFusion-server-{version}.jar {PORT} {SERVERNAME}The server will listen to the specified port, and must have a unique name (5 ASCII non-zero characters)
java -jar ChatFusion-client-{version}.jar {HOSTNAME} {PORT} {FILES_DIR} {USERNAME}A client will connect to the specified host and port, and will send and receive files in the specified directory. The user will be connected with a username (non-zero ASCII characters). If the username is already in use on this server, the connection will be refused.