JavaChat

A simple Java chat server and client with swing GUI with a MySQL database back-end.

Getting the Source

In order to get the source code either download the compressed package or make sure you have [Git][git] installed and execute the following:

git clone https://github.com/CoryG89/JavaChat
cd JavaChat

Opening in Eclipse

JavaChat was developed in Eclipse, NetBeans was also using to create the swing GUI for the client. You should be able to open the project in Eclipse to run both the server and the client.

Building JavaChat

If you'd rather build JavaChat on the command line you may do so by using make

make

You can also build the server and client seperately and clean the project as well.

make server
make client
make clean

You can also use the javac compiler:

mkdir -p bin
javac src/chatserver/*.java -d bin
javac src/chatclient/*.java -d bin

MySQL Dependency

JavaChat depends on a MySQL back-end, you need to set up the database by executing the chatdb.sql script on your mysql server. The DBManager class reads the database authentication details from a data file. A sample data file is included as dbauth.dat.sample simply remove the sample extension and edit the data file by replacing the first and second line with your username and password respectively.

Running JavaChat

In order to run the JavaChat server enter the following:

java -cp "bin;mysql-connector.jar" chatserver/Server

In order to run an instance of the JavaChat client enter the following

java -cp "bin" chatclient/ChatFrame