This project aims to design and implement a dictionary server applying Connection-oriented Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). It serves requests (e.g., Add, Remove, and Search a word) from multiple users (clients). Multi-threading enables the concurrent access, while TCP enables the reliability of data transmission. To avoid system failure, potential error are handled.
It consists of three parts. One is process management; multi-threading and request handling. It generates sockets for client-server as well as controls the entire process in the main server. Another is file management; upload and download the dictionary file. A local data repository provides a dictionary database to the server. The other is the Graphical User Interface (GUI) application; JavaFX. It serves dictionary related service to users. These three components are bounded to communicate with each other through sockets. The used Dictionary DB in dic.txt is randomly generated by myself.
Make sure you modify filePath as your DB pathway in class DictionaryDB under /DictionaryServer/src/sample/DictionaryDB.java, then create separate jar files of the your modified code.
You can find my .jar files under /DictionaryClient/out/artifacts/ and /DictionaryServer/out/artifacts/ (Yet, they won't work on your local PC due to the DB filePath)
To start the server
java –jar DictionaryServer.jar <port>
To start the client
java –jar DictionaryClient.jar <server-address> <server port>
Java 1.8.0
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