sontx/chat-socket

java socket chatroom chat-socket tcp-server tcp-client javafx java-swing

chat-socket is a simple chat application includes chat client and chat server. Support multiple users, private chat, and personal status. This project is based on TCP socket, multi-threading, JavaFx, Java Swing, Java serialization, and JSON.

Prerequisites

To compile this project, you need to install these things:

jdk8
maven

Installing

Build (binary file will be placed in target directory):

mvn clean compile assembly:single

Run (will ask you for working mode):

mvn exec:java

Usage

Both server and client are in chatsocket-x.y-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar (to get this jar file you need to build this project).

Server app: java -jar chatsocket.jar --mode=server
Client app: java -jar chatsocket.jar --mode=client

App settings will be saved in app.json file

{
  "modified" : 1580791811962,
  "settings" : [ {
    "key" : "client",
    "data" : {
      "serverIp" : "127.0.0.1",
      "serverPort" : 3393,
      "loggedUserName" : "sontx"
    }
  }, {
    "key" : "server",
    "data" : {
      "ip" : "127.0.0.1",
      "port" : 3393
    }
  } ]
}

Server

The server needs to listen to an IP and a port number, other clients will connect to this address. Fill up these boxes and click on Start button to start the server.

All users data will be saved in user.json file.

[ {
  "id" : "7453f7f5105547179f0845cd03fe4eda",
  "username" : "sontx",
  "passwordHash" : "7c4a8d09ca3762af61e59520943dc26494f8941b",
  "profile" : {
    "displayName" : "Tran Xuan Son",
    "status" : "I'm just a beginner"
  }
} ]