chat-client -- 2

For this assignment you will be implementing a Chat Client using Java and JavaFX. JavaFX will be used as out GUI framework. To fully implement our Chat Client, we will need some help from their party libraries and a build system. To help with the building and dependency management, we are going to use Gradle to manage our project. You should not need to install gradle itself as it should be automatically added once we import the project to IntelliJ. The GUI framework we are going to use is JavaFX, this works a little different that the GUI we used in Project 1 as that was Java Swing. For more information and documentation on JavaFX can be found here. For making HTTP requests, we are going to use Java’s standard API and use the HttpClient Class. For realtime communication, we are going to use a WebSocket for communication. The third party libary we are going to use is Tyrus Project. It provides an implmentation for the WebSocket API in Java. It documentation can be found here: Docs. This dependency will be installed and managed by graded. In order for us to communicate with the Chat Server, we need to be able to speak a common language between the server and the client. This is important because it is not always the case that a server and client are written in the same language. For this your Chat Client and the chat server will communicate via JSON(Javascript Object Notation). However, Java does not have a standard API for parsing and accessing JSON objects. At least not easily. Therefore, we are going to use the GSON library to parse and build JSON strings. Gson Project. Documentation for the Gson library can be found here. One of the important aspects of a project like this is to work on your ability to learn new tools and APIs. You are ability to learn and learn quicky is an important skill to have. 2 Setup When setting up the project it is important that you make sure everything works and is ready to go before you start adding code. Given that we are using Graded, we need to make sure that when we important, gradle is active and out project has a [login to view URL] file. One is given to you in the project.