multiplayer LAN game

[ethomas92]

Hello I'm new to this forum so I hope I placed this thread at the right place.

Well I'm kind of new to the java world, but I my knowledge and interest is growing. At university they asked us to make a project, we had some choices, i choose Boggle. It just needs to be a console application so not to fancy. But after 5 days it's done. But the deadline is 25 of January, so I want to add some functionality. I have been told that making it a LAN multiplayer game should make a good impression. Now it's multiplayer but you all need to be in front of the same computer. But networking programming is something that I have no knowledge about, even not in other languages.

So I some of you can give me some tips, help, titels of books, just to make this happen.

Thanks

Thomas

[Jire]

I recommend you read this Oracle tutorial: Lesson: All About Sockets (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking)