SocNet

A social network application with integration with Facebook REST API and updates in real-time for users social activity, by making use of WebSockets.

Features

• Register user
• Login user
• Create a new post (with or without Images)
• Edit a previous post
• Delete a previous post
• Reply to any post
• Send Direct Messages to other users
• See online users (automatically updated)
• Join chatrooms
• When a post is created, it’s created on Facebook.
• When a post is deleted, it’s deleted on Facebook.
• When a reply is made, it’s added on Facebook.

Overall architecture

The application uses 2 servers and 3 types of client: TCP, RMI (Remote Method Invocation, and HTTP. See the diagram above.

Pre-requisites

• JDBC driver
• Apache Tomcat
• WebBrowser with support to websockets