Client/Server chat system

As part of my university degree, I was part of a team which has wrote a client/server chat program in Java. I was a software engineer, working on the client side of this project.

The server is command line based. The client has a GUI constructed from the java.awt and java.swing packages. Because Java is a multi platform language, this software should run on all operating systems with a Java compiler. However it has only been tested on Windows 2000 and XP.

Server Features: can set maximum number of clients, specify port to use, log server events.

Client Features: GUI, Whisper mode.

You can download the completed project below in a zip file. There is a readme file with both the client and the server which states how to run the program. You will need to have Sun's SDK 1.4 installed to compile and run this program.

Downloads

Server (10KB)

Client (10KB)

Download the client user guide (MS Word, 2.3MB). Please note no support is offered with this software.