Example simple chat application built in java and managed by maven:

• Demonstates Java's networking capabilities to send and receive messages between clients and a server.
• to build jar locally use: mvn clean package

includes Dockefile and docker-compose.yaml to be able to spin up a chat server locally

• use docker-compose build to create a new image
• use docker-compose up to start the chat server
• once server is running use the following to launch the GUI: java -cp JavaChatApp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.chatapp.ChatClientGUI