Chat Application

[chander shivdasani]

I am writing a chat application involving one server and multiple clients. However, when clients chat, the messages should not pass through server.
This is what i intend to do:

> Send chat request to server
> Server replies with credientials(IP,Port) of the other client
> Establish a connection with other client and proceed with the chat.

I am facing a problem in the 3rd step. I dont know how to establish a connection between client and another client?.
For establishing a connection between client and server i have used socket and server sockets. What is the way of establishing connection between client and another client?

[Lorand Komaromi]

The clients will have to listen for incoming connections, just like your server...

[chander shivdasani]

Does that mean each client will also have a server socket associated with it?

[Lorand Komaromi]

chander shivdasani wrote:Does that mean each client will also have a server socket associated with it?

Yes.