java 2 clients applications communicating with a server

Question

I am trying out a simple socket programming example. I was able to run a server application and client application to communicate with each other. I now need to know a tutorial that explains how 2 clients could communicate with each other through the server.

How can I do this ? Can someone point me to a good tutorial or an explanation on how this can be done in Java

[Lesson: All About Sockets](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/sockets/) — Reimeus, Dec 23 '12 at 19:44
Do you want the server to establish a direct connection between the clients? — MrSmith42, Dec 23 '12 at 20:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 23 '12 at 20:02

It's not that different and difficult than writing client/server pair. You just have to create threads on server just there, where you accept connections from clients. If your clients should communicate each other, than you surely need a list to store them. And you have to implement, what your server does (communication) in this thread.

Here is a good chat programm tutorial: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/259777-a-simple-chat-program-with-clientserver-gui-optional/

java 2 clients applications communicating with a server

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