spring-websocket-chat

This project represent simple spring websocket chat solution. It was created in March 2016.

Features

• Group chat of all participants
• 1 : 1 chat which can be intialized by double clicking on participant name in the right column
• Incomming message notification marked by tab color highlighting
• Messages persistance when you accidentally close 1:1 messages tab and reopens the conversation again
• Chat reinitialization after page refresh
• Failover to long polling when websockets are not allowed by browser or server

Technologies used

Back-end:

• Spring Web MVC
• Spring Websockets
• Spring Security
• Spring Data
• HSQL DB

Front-end:

• jQuery
• Boostrap
• stomp
• sockJS

How run the project:

1. clone the repo
2. run> mvn clean tomcat7:run

Optionally:

2. build the project> mvn clean install
3. rename created war file to chatapp.war
4. deploy to your tomcat instalation

Access from browser:

1. http://localhost:8080/chatapp
2. Login by username: whateverSingleWordUsername and password: chat