Distributed Chat Application

1. To start the application, you need to run MessageApp.java .

2. This class does the following:
   2.1 Starts UDP Server .
   2.2 UDP Broadcasts its details .
   2.3 Starts Raft Context .
   2.4 Starts Server Request Queue .
   2.5 Starts the netty TCP Server .
   

3. The following configuration files has been used:
   3.1 routing.conf : Contains details regarding tcp port and routing resources .
   3.2 config.yml : Contains constants used project wide including node details like name, ip, group tag etc.
   3.3 hibernate.cfg.xml : Contains mysql and hibernate related configurations .
   

1. UDP: com.sjsu.rollbits.discovery
2. Raft: com.sjsu.rollbits.raft
3. Sharding & Replication: com.sjsu.rollbits.sharding.hashing
4. DAO: com.sjsu.rollbits.dao.interfaces
5. InterCluster Services: com.sjsu.rollbits.intercluster.sync
6. External Client: com.sjsu.rollbits.client

Project report submission can be found at https://github.com/rashmishrm/rollbits/blob/master/Rollbits-Project-Report.pdf