I feel like there is some basic concept I am missing here. I have a simple chat server program I have written for a class. I don't need any help with the mechanics of the program. That is working fine. My question has to do with running the programs from the command line.
First, I launch the server from one command prompt window. The server is a console program and does not have a user interface. It spews out some messages to the console as different things happen, which is what I want at this point. So, I don't care that this window waits for the server to end before coming back to the command prompt - that makes sense to me.
After the server side is running, I launch clients one at a time from different console windows. The client has a simple swing gui interface. But when I run the client (
java ChatClient <username>) I do not get a command prompt back - it waits until I quit the client user interface before giving me the command prompt back. Although it does not matter for the purposes of this class project, this is not what I want. How can I start the client side and not have the command window just sitting there waiting for me to quit the user interface?
I am coding in Eclipse on a Mac OS X 10.6 machine. The server and clients are all running on my local machine. I want to
test 50 clients without having to open 50 terminal windows. Thank! :-)