LAN instant messenger using Java

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Hi sir,

I am a student and want to make a LAN instant messenger using Java. It's for our project in school. I don't know where to start.

Another one, is it recommended that I use php and mysql?
But I really want to use the Java language.

Posted 2-Apr-11 0:37am

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Updated 2-Apr-11 0:53am

Sandeep Mewara

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Henry Minute · Answer 1 · 2011-04-02T05:07:00

If you don't know where to start or how to do a particular thing you have to remember that hardly anything that programmers do is totally original.

Therefore it is almost certain that someone, somewhere will already have done it and if they have, being a programmer, they will almost as certainly have told everyone about it to show how clever they are.

Your best source will therefore be an internet search. All you have to do is come up with a search phrase which will limit the hits you get to those most likely to be what you want.

For your problem something like java lan im or java lan instant messenger.
'java' because that's what you want to use.
'lan' because you want it for a LAN.
'im' because that's what you want to write.
You could also add 'source' to the end which may (or may not) limit the hits to those with source code.

Then read through the summaries of the hits you get, decide on those that you like the sound of and download the source code for a few of them.

Build those, decide which features you like from each one and then read the source to see how that feature was implemented.

Shimples!