MULTITHREADED MEDIA SHARING APP USING JAVA

What is the project about?

This was an exercise of the university to fully understand and implement concurrent applications. The application is like a torrenting platform, in the sense that there is a central server that allows different clients to connect using a central server and then share files using a point-to-point connection between them.

Aplication architecture:

• There is a central server that can handle multiple clients using a multithreaded system.
• Clients connect to it, so that they can ask for files to other clients. When a client wants a file, the central server will help him find who has that file and then both clients (with a client-server architecture) will connect and send/receive files.

Programming language:

• The programming language is JAVA
• Some key features of the code construction:
  • Socket & ServerSocket to handle server-client connection
  • Multithreading extending the Thread class
  • Concurrency handled by locks