Introduction to Distributed Systems - Assignment Template

General Information

The following template is structured as a multi-project build using gradle as a build tool. By the way, gradle is the only tool supporting multi-project builds. The main project idistrsys specifies all included subprojects in the settings.gradle file. client and server are dependent on the shared project since all the model classes are included in this project.

How to get the server and client running?

Generating classes via protobuf plugin

1. Within the idistrsys folder start a CMD.
2. Build the project via gradle clean build --console 'verbose': the verbose option enables printing of all executed tasks.
3. Refresh your gradle project within your IDE (e.g. Eclipse)
4. Implement client and server interfaces

Starting the server

1. Within the idistrsys folder start a CMD.
2. Run the server via java -jar server\build\libs\server-1.0.jar

The shared project is automatically build before the server is started. Look at the dependencies block in the server/build.gradle.

Starting the client

1. Within the idistrsys folder start a CMD.
2. Run the server via gradle client:run

The shared project is automatically included in the dependencies of the client and server. If you are interested inspect the idistrsys/build.gradle to see all the relevant settings, configurations and tasks.