Expert: Brian Ngure - 10/31/2006

Question
Dear Brian:

Please i need help..i want to create Desktop chatting Application with java that [Work on internet/WAN]

note: i create one but it work only on LAN.

what i need?
What API i need?
does java.net.Socket designed for LAN only?

Thanks you..

Answer
Hi,

You need to build aclient side program and a server side program. No special API is necessary. Here are some links with tutorials that show you how to build a chat program:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~amyles/tcpchat/

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/97/18/index2a.html?tw=programming

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/97/24/index2a.html?tw=programming

http://www.digitalfocus.com/ddj/code/jun96/Chat.java