Distributed-chat-system

Executing the Chat Server

1. The executable chatServer.jar is provided.

2. A chat server can be executed as follows:

java -jar chatServer.jar -l <path-to-server_conf.tab> -n <server-id>

3. <path-to-server_conf.tab> indicates the path to the server_conf.tab file. This path goes as path-to-the-source-code/src/main/java/org/example/config/server_conf.tab

eg: if the source code is at C:/Distributed-chat-system, then the path to be included is C:/Distributed-chat-system/src/main/java/org/example/config/server_conf.tab

4. <server-id> indicates the id of the server to be started. This server id should be one that is included in the server_conf.tab file.