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jinn, a Java Shared Whiteboard

Jinn -- well, it's not netmeeting. In fact, it's a shared whiteboard application.

It's also rather unusual on these pages, since it's the end-result of a Group Project at Cambridge. Eight undergraduates were randomly thrown together with the task of writing a Java program... scary, hmmm?

The basic idea is fairly simple: lots of people can join a session, chat, draw things, and so forth. Here's a screenshot:

jinn java shared whiteboard screenshot

To run it, extract to a folder and run java org.davidmorgan.jinn.main.Jinn -s to start a server. Then run java org.davidmorgan.jinn.main.Jinn -c to start each client. If the server is on a different machine to the one you're running the client on, edit server.cfg first to set the address.

I saved the session that I took the screenshot from in this file, if you point jinn to it when you create a session then you can resume where I left off...

Source: jinn.tgz

Package: org.davidmorgan.jinn.*

Main: org.davidmorgan.jinn.main.Jinn

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