Forum Thread: How to Make a Terminal Chat App in Ubuntu Like Die Hard 4?

This shouldn't be too complicated to make simple chat application. Here are some important points to respect (it's not an exhaustive list):

• You need a client app for users and a server app in order to bind all client app's that want to join the chat.
• The communication can be supported with TCP/IP sockets for example.
• The client must be able to send and receive messages from the server.
• The server must be able to receive messages from clients and then forward it to all others clients except the sender.
• For the client you'll need a create a seperated thread to handle incoming messages because your main thread with be busy with the user input. This thread will print the sender's id after receiving the message.