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[SnydeMz]

Hi people. Im starting on a project to develop my own instant messenger. I know tons of IMs exist but i want the challenge of designing mine from scratch perhaps also building up on those that exist. I know a bit of C programming and a bit of Java but i don't know python, vb.net, or C#. Would someone with experience in programming advise me as to what language to use, or point me in the direction of which books to read.
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[DEViANT]

One thing you would need to realize is that you will need a centralized (data storage) (communications) server throughout which all will run. The easiest solution I can think of is this :

A Java application with a basic gui interface ( or be 1337 so that it HAS to be used in terminal )
that takes in the string, uses XMLRPC/SOAP to post it to a server, which in turn writes it to the database. The client will also have a constant "refreshing" function that will query the Server DB for new messages, so that it retrieves and displays newly added messages. Thus your server would need to run some sort of script as well. However I could be wrong, I've never read up on the subject at hand.