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Can Server Socket and multiple clients run on a single host?

Can we run multiple clients & 1 server on a single machine? Let's say I have a server class (thread for multiple connections) and a client class as well. I want to run at least 2 clients at the same time but they have separate chat window(Server to client but not Group chat). Is it Possible? I have this code

public void server(){
    ss = new ServerSocket(port);

    chatprocess cp = new chatprocess(socket);// accept connection inside and input/output as well
}

public client(){
    socket = new socket("localhost",port);
    clientprocess(); //i/o inside
}
Solution

  • Yes.

    In order to do that you must create a thread assigned for each client. There are a lot of examples here in SO.