Parallel Processing and Distributed Systems

Working with Sockets in Java

Just wrapped up the assignment for the seventh-semester Computer Science course on Parallel Processing and Distributed Systems, where the professor asked for a project on Sockets — research the topic and build a chat implemented in Java. As reference I used http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-1997/jw-01-chat.html and the excellent book Head First Java. Great resource, helped me 100%. My job was basically to understand the code and adapt it (why reinvent the wheel?) to my needs — the book walks through the code with explanations, and the site provides solid logic plus the chat.zip project for you to download and study. Here's the PDF (theory) and the zip showing how it turned out. theory: README implementation: chat_ppsd project implemented in Java