Thread: Chat Room in JSP

I've been told to make a Chat Room using JSP and MS-SQL... The following are the features of the Chat Room I'm supposed to make... I've no knowledge whatsoever of JSP besides that it is a scripting language...

Chat Room Synopsis
 
Features:
• Customizable Text: Fonts, Colours, BB tags etc.
• User Accounts: Users can create accounts to register themselves on the forum.
• Online Status: Members can set their online status. For example – Available, Busy, Away, etc.
• Smilies: Members can put smilies in their posts using smiley codes.
• Closed Rooms: Members can make a closed room which will require a password/invite to access the room. 
• Private Chat: Members can use the private chat feature.
• Ignore User/Block User: Members can block particular members from sending them messages.
• Slang/Abuse Filter: Common English Slangs will be automatically filtered and replaced with some other text.
• Flood Control: Users are not allowed to double post the same message.
 
• User Privileges:
1.	Guests: 
i.	Guests won’t be able to use all the features of the site.
ii.	Guests cannot use the private messaging feature.
iii.	Guests are forbidden to create chat rooms nor can they accept invites to closed chat rooms.
iv.	Guests won’t be able to change their avatars. A default avatar will be set automatically.
 
2.	Registered Members: 
i.	Users can register themselves by a unique id and password. 
ii.	Members can set their name, gender, age and other information in their profiles.
iii.	Members can create chat rooms, invite other members to join closed chat rooms.
iv.	Members can set their avatars from the list of available avatars.
v.	Members can set their online status and ignore a particular member.
vi.	Members can use the private chat feature to chat in private.
 
3.	Administrators: 
i.	Admins can block users from a particular chat room.
ii.	Admins can ban a member permanently.
iii.	Admins can use all the other features of the forum.

Now my question is,would it to easy to implement the following features using JSP? What level of JSP knowledge would be required to do so? I only know Core Java... I have asked this on a lot of forums but could not get any help...

EDIT: I have cross posted this thread on java-forums.org...
http://www.java-forums.org/javaserve...-room-jsp.html

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Originally Posted by c.P.u1

Sorry bro, I had no knowledge about the cross posting rule...

It's not a big deal, people just like to know where else you're getting help so they don't repeat advice you've already received.

I have a dumb question: who told you to make the chat room? Doesn't that person have any help for you?

Originally Posted by dlorde

You won't get far in college if you can't do your own research. Try this.

bro, I always use google before making any post on a forum... Searching for a JSP tutorial is different from searching for a specific feature which you want to implement in JSP... The features I have mentioned in the synopsis may or may not be posted on any site or forums... Google is not my friend to return an exact result of what I desire... If I had any knowledge on JSP, I would have started searching for the way in which these features will be implemented but I don't have any knowledge... I'll totally be starting JSP from scratch a few months later... So to begin with something of which I have no knowledge, I would search for 'if it is possible' rather than 'how it is possible'....

In that case, try breaking the problem up into smaller pieces. Get each piece to work perfectly on its own, then try to combine them. Work slowly, read through the tutorials, and let us know when you get stuck on a particular part.

It's much harder to answer "I have about fifty requirements, here is a list of them, how do I do that?" than it is to answer "I'm working on a particular feature, here is what I have so far (in SSCCE form), I'm trying to do XYZ with thus-and-such code, I was expecting ABC but I got 123 instead, does anybody see what I'm doing wrong?"