The aim of this project is to develop a peer-to-peer application that allows users to chat and share files with each other within a LAN. Chat messages are delivered via UDP, while file sharing is done over TCP. It's also possible to enable encrytion for file sharing. However, the current implementation is still very crude that it uses a shared secret key for both encryption and decryption.
The protocol for messaging is inspired from IRC. In fact it's a much simpler version of IRC.
The project takes use of some of the Apache Commons project.
- Notification when someone joins or leaves the network
- Private chat
- Send file (to individual)
- Send file with encryption
Run the ChatNetwork.jar file located at out/artifacts/ChatNetwork/ChatNetwork.jar
java -jar ChatNetWork.jar [port]
The port parameter is optional, the default value is 4000.