JSChat is a basic chat program written in Java using the Swing library for GUI. It is written as a practical demo for the use of Swing library, multi-threading, event- driven programming, data structures (HashMap and ArrayList), and socket programming.
The JSChat server uses multi-threading to handle multiple clients at a time. Every client must define a username and channel to connect to during authentication. Only one user in a channel can use a particular username at a time, and a username can be blocked from the server's admin panel.
A channel, when active, is handled by a single thread, which loops through a list of all the users using that particular channel, and broadcast any message that isn't a special query to all the users of the channel. This reduces overhead when many users are connected to different channels since only a thread is required to handle a channel.
To build from source;
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$ git clone https://github.com/UmarAbdul01/JSChat.git
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$ cd JSChat
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$ chmod +x install.sh
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$ ./install.sh
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$ java -jar jschat.jar
Author: Umar Abdul