Jar2Jar

A peer to peer network emulator

How to use the API in your own project

Step 1

Copy the J2J package from src/sample to your project. Import the package into the appropiate files

import J2J

Step 2

Create a new object of type p2pNode. Constructor takes port number and IP address

p2pNode instance = new p2pNode(6066, 192.168.0.1); //Replace 192.168.0.1 with the IP address of your destination computer

Step 3

Call the connect() member function

instance.connect();

Step 4

Call the connect() member function on both computers to connect

instance.connect()

Step 5

To send a message to the other computer, use sendMessage(String). To receive a message, call fetchMessage()

instance.sendMessage("Hello there");

message = instance.fetchMessage();

Step 6

Call instance.disconnet() on both computers to drop off the connection

If developing an app, place all these functions inside threads to retain GUI functionality