Seeking help abt a Chat application using RMI and Servlets

[kris reddy]

hi frienz!
1. I would like to know about how to develop a chat application using RMI and Servlets.
2. I would like to know the advantages of developing such an application over a chat application developed using an applet as a client and a server using sockets.
Kris.

[Matthew Phillips]

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[William Brogden]

What a coincidence, one of the permutations of a chat application in my book uses RMI and servlets. It works just fine.
Advantages over the applet approach - your client does not have to download an applet, any browser will work. With the actual chat application running as a separate process that the servlet talks to with RMI, your chat could include other clients that are not linked by HTTP.
Bill
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