pls am building a chat app and am a newbie to java. now am asking can i build such app with just java and nothing else? thanks in anticipation for your responses.

nicemanpro:
pls am building a chat app and am a newbie to java. now am asking can i build such app with just java and nothing else? thanks in anticipation for your responses.

You might need JSP for the backend

kingvicky:

You might need JSP for the backend

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nicemanpro:
pls am building a chat app and am a newbie to java. now am asking can i build such app with just java and nothing else? thanks in anticipation for your responses.

I wouldn't advise you to build only with Java although it's possible.

A better alternative will be to use Java on the client side in the user's device and create a backend server. You will need have knowledge about web sockets, it's different from Http request and response.

You can build your backend web sockets with node js and socket.io or even with python. I'm not a php fan, so I won't mention it. I've actually recently build a built a web socket with python. Python has nice libraries for everything.

In my own simple opinion, learn another backend language

zamie:


I wouldn't advise you to build only with Java although it's possible.

A better alternative will be to use Java on the client side in the user's device and create a backend server. You will need have knowledge about web sockets, it's different from Http request and response.

You can build your backend web sockets with node js and socket.io or even with python. I'm not a php fan, so I won't mention it. I've actually recently build a built a web socket with python. Python has nice libraries for everything.

In my own simple opinion, learn another backend language

Lol @ emboldened. I thought I was the only one who does this to languages i don't really like.
If it's a mobile chat app he intends building, I would suggest he learns any of the hybrid platforms (Ionic, Cordova or React Native) so as to make his app platform independent.