DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMAIL AND MULTI-USER CHAT SYSTEM

Abstract

The electronic mail (Email) plays an unavoidable role in human communications. With the increasingly growing reliance on electronic mail there is an increasing demand to develop a cheap and readily available effective communication process amongst people in a closed group with similar interest. This research work considered the analysis and development of an electronic mail (Email) and a multiuser chat system to enhance effective communication. The analysis and implementation of Email and the multiuser chat system is subdivided into three stages namely: programing, database management, and networking. Using Java programming language; which involves the coding of the server and the client components, MySQL; which consist of the development of the database management system, and a wireless router; to provide internet connectivity, real time electronic messages, whether online or offline, can be sent and received at zero cost amongst a group of people who share the same area of communicative commonality.