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Project Report on
“CHATTING APPLICATION”
Submitted in partial fulfilment for the award of the degree
Of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

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DECLARATION

We declare that minor project entitled “CHATTING APPLICATION” is our

own work conducted under the supervision of “Professor Name”, Department
of Information Technology, College Name and Address We further
declare that, to the best of our knowledge the project does not contain any work
which has been submitted for the award of the degree either in the University or
in any other University/Deemed University without proper citations.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 
 
I wish to express our sincere gratitude to God for his protection,
providence, guidance and above all, for sustaining us. 
 
I would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our professor
‘Professor Name’ as well as
Our H.O.D ‘HOD NAME’ who gave me the golden opportunity to do
this wonderful
Project on the topic “Chatting Application” which also helped me in
doing
A lot of Research and gaining some precious knowledge.
 
Finally I wish to express our appreciation to our parents for their love
and support. 

Student Name
Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Main Objective
Requirement
Conclusion
 Abstract
Teleconferencing or chatting refers to any kind of
communication that offers a real-time transmission of
messages from sender to the receiver. Chatting is a
method of using technology to bring people and ideas
together despite the geographical barriers. The
technology to provide the chatting facility has been
available for years, but the acceptance is quite recent.
Analysis of chatting provides an overview of the
technologies used, available features, functions, system
of the architecture of the application, the structure of
database of an Instant Messaging application:
IChat(IC). The objective of IC application is to
facilitate text messaging, group chatting option, data
transfer without size restriction which is commonly
seen in most of the messaging applications.
 INTRODUCTION
Chatting Application is a desktop based application.
This client server chat application is based on java swing and used socket package. its
simple and easy and require only core java knowledge. I have taken this program from
internet and modified a little bit to make it simpler and more elegant.

This application/program is a good example of using [Link], [Link] package to create a

chat application. A beginner of java language, who is familiar with this packages can
able, be beneficiate.

Chatting is a method of using technology to bring people and ideas “together”

despite of the geographical barriers. The technology has been available for years
but the acceptance it was quit recent. Our project is an example of a multiple
client chat server.
It is made up of 2 applications the client application, which runs on the user’s
Pc and server application ,which runs on any Pc on the network. To start
chatting client should get connected to server. We will focus on TCP and UDP
socket connections which are a fundamental part of socket programming.

Keywords: sockets, client-server, Java network programming-socket

functions, Multicasting etc.
 MAIN OBJECTIVE
The aim of this project is to express how we can implement a simple chat application
between a server and a client? The application is a desktop based application and is
implemented using Swing and awt. The project is developed in Java SE language
executed on a single stand-alone java across a network using loop back address
concept.

Application consists of two programs:

Server

Client

Server
The server module of the application waits for the client to connect to it. Then if
connection is granted a client interacts communicates and connects to the server, it
can mutually communicate with the server. The duty of the server is to let clients
exchange the messages.

Client
The client module is the one that utilizer sends requests to the server. Utilizer utilizes
the client as the means to connect to the server. Once he establishes the connection,
he can communicate to the connected server.
 REQUIREMENTS
External Interface Requirements

User Interface

The user interface required to be developed for the system

should be user friendly and attractive.
There are two sets of Java APIs for graphics programming:
AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) and Swing.

 AWT API was introduced in JDK 1.0. Most of the AWT

components have become obsolete and should be
replaced by newer Swing components.

 Swing API, a much more comprehensive set of graphics

libraries that enhances the AWT, was introduced as part
of Java Foundation Classes (JFC) after the release of JDK
1.1. JFC consists of Swing, Java2D, Accessibility,
Internationalization, and Pluggable Look-and-Feel
Support APIs. JFC was an add-on to JDK 1.1 but has been
integrated into core Java since JDK 1.2.

Software Interfaces
Programming Language Java
AND SOCKET PROGRAMMING
Operational Concepts and Scenarios
Operation of the application based on the inputs given by the user:

When the run button is clicked then the chat form is initialized with a connection

 between the host and the client machine.

Note: server must be started at first before a client start.

 Contains a rich textbox which send messages from one user to another

 Contains a textbox for messages to be written that is sent across the network.

 Contains a Send button

. When the sent button is clicked, in the background, the text in the textbox is encoded

 and sent as a packet over the network to the client machine. Here this message is decoded and is
shown in the rich textbox.
 Project Scope
This project can be mainly divided into two modules:

1. Server

2. Client

This project is mainly depended on client/server model. The client requests the server and server
responses by granting the clients request. The proposed system should provide both of the above
features along with the followed ones:

Server
A server is a computer program that provides services to other computer programs (and their users)
in the same or other computers. The computer that a server program runs in is also frequently
referred to as a server. That machine may be a dedicated server or used for other purposes as well.
Example Server, Database, Dedicated, Fileserver, Proxy Server, Web Server. The server is always
waiting for client’s requests. The client come and go down but the server remains the same.

A server application normally listens to a specific port waiting for connection requests from a client.
When a connection request arrives, the client and the server establish a dedicated connection over
which they can communicate. During the connection process, the client is assigned a local port
number, and binds a socket to it. The client talks to the server by writing to the socket and gets
information from the server by reading from it. Similarly, the server gets a new local port number (it
needs a new port number so that it can continue to listen for connection requests on the original
port). The server also binds a socket to its local port and communicates with the client by reading
from and writing to it. The client and the server must agree on a protocol that is, they must agree on
the language of the information transferred back and forth through the socket. Normally, a server
runs on a specific computer and has a socket that is bound to a specific port number. The server just
waits, listening to the socket for a client to make a connection request.
1. THE SERVER SCREEN
Client
On the client site the client knows the hostname of the machine on which the server is running and
the port number on which the server is listening.

To make a connection request, the client tries to rendezvous with the server on the server's machine
and port. The client also needs to identify itself to the server so it binds to a local port number that it
will use during this connection. This is usually assigned by the system.

The model used for this project is the single server –

Single client models.

The following specifications must be implemented:

1. The server and client are two separate programs.

2. THE CLIENT SCREEN
3. THE CLIENT SERVER SCREEN
Future work
There is always a room for improvements in any software package, however good and
efficient it may be done. But the most important thing should be flexible to accept further
modification. Right now we are just dealing with text communication. In future this software
may be extended to include features such as:

Files transfer: this will enable the user to send files of different formats to others via the
chat application.
Voice chat: this will enhance the application to a higher level where communication will be
possible via voice calling as in telephone.
Video chat: this will further enhance the feature of calling into video communication.
Conclusion
I Developed network applications in Java by using sockets, threads, and Web services.
These software is portable, efficient, and easily maintainable for large number of clients. Our
developed web-based chatting software is unique in its features and more importantly easily
customizable. The [Link] package provides a powerful and flexible set of classes for
implementing network applications. Typically, programs running on client machines make
requests to programs on a server Machine. These involve networking services provided by
the transport layer. The most widely used transport protocols on the Internet are TCP
(Transmission control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol).
TCP is a connection-oriented protocol providing a reliable flow of data between two
computers. On the other hand, UDP is a simpler message-based connectionless protocol
which sends packets of data known as datagrams from one computer to another with no
guarantees of arrival.