🏢 Internship Details

• COMPANY: CODTECH IT SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD
• NAME: RAGHAV PARASHAR
• INTERN ID: CT04DN144
• DOMAIN: JAVA PROGRAMMING
• DURATION: 4 WEEKS (FROM JUNE 10TH, 2025 TO JULY 10TH, 2025)
• MENTOR: NEELA SANTOSH

🛠️ This project was developed as part of my internship task.

📌 Instructions (Task 3: Multithreaded Chat App)

• Build a client-server chat application using Java Sockets
• Server must handle multiple clients using multithreading
• Messages from one client should be broadcast to all others
• Use Socket, ServerSocket, InputStream, OutputStream, and Thread
• Run server and clients in separate terminal windows

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Task 3 - Java Multithreaded Chat Application

🧑‍💻 Description

This is a basic Java console-based chat app using:

• Sockets for client-server communication
• Multithreading to support multiple clients

The server accepts multiple connections, and each client can send messages that are broadcast to all others.

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🛠 How to Run

1. Open 3 terminals (or 3 command prompts)

• Terminal 1 → Run the server

javac ChatServer.java
java ChatServer

• Terminal 2 and 3 → Run the clients

javac ChatClient.java
java ChatClient

Enter messages in one client → see them appear in the other ✅

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💡 Technologies Used

-Java Sockets -Multithreading with Thread class -Console I/O using BufferedReader and PrintWriter

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📁 Files Included

-ChatServer.java: Server code that handles client threads -ChatClient.java: Client code to send and receive messages -README.md: This file -screenshot.png: Console chat demo (optional)

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