WebChat

A simple chat application written in Java with a simple username password based authentication and multiple chatrooms.

Pre-requisites

1. Java 8
2. Maven
3. Apache Tomcat

Installation

1. Clone this Repository
2. Install a DB server of your choice
3. Write a DB Client under src/main/java/com/webchat/db/impl as an implementation of com.webchat.db.DBService. A Maria DB Client already exists.
4. Modify src/main/resources/db.properties with your DB server's details
5. Run sql\ddl.sql on DB
6. Run a maven clean and install
7. Install the target war file on the tomcat server

Running the application

1. Run the tomcat server
2. Navigate to hostURL\index.jsp where hostURL is the URL on which the tomcat server is running
3. Register a few users
4. Assign 'team's to the registered users by inserting to the TEAM table
5. Log in as a user and chat