Hi all. Just wanted a little feed back on a programming project I'm about ot embark upon. I'm a third year software engineering student and as part of our third year course-work, we have to design and create our own software product. As mine, I intend to make an instant messenger like msn or yahoo which I'm going to do in Java. I'm fairly sure I know how to do it and I've already gotten a lecturer to approve it but I just wanted some second opinions . It's not a P2P system, all communication will be done with a server. For the sake of easy use, I thought it would be a good idea to host the product on a website as an applet. I've seen this done with chat rooms so I figured it was the best way. However, the lecturer that signed my project description made a little comment that there could be a problem in communicating with the server if I use an applet and that a "netlet" may be better. Thing is, I've never heard of a netlet before . Asides from that, the basic idea is pretty simple. To use the system, a user has to register. This will be a simple program that will create a data base entry for the user with a user name and password. With this, they can use the program to talk to anyone else that may be logged in. Of course, as I'm just getting started, I expect a few bumps on the road but all in all, I'm fairly confidant that this will be do able (given my total lack of real programing skills). Would be great to hear some feed back from some pros
An applet will be fine. This has been done many times before, but no doubt it will be a good learning experience for you. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=java+applet+chat&btnG=Google+Search&meta= Good luck