The anagram service is a simple program designed to find anagrams of word given a dictionary.
This project uses Java 8 and Maven.
###Getting Started
There are three different modes you can run the program in; local, server and client. When running
this application, pass in; server, client or [blank]/local as a command line argument. It
only reads the first parameter in the command line argument.
###local
Runs the program on your local machine and loads the words from the embedded file words.txt from
the /src/main/resources. The program then prompts you to input a word and responds with any
anagrams found for the word.
###server Runs the program on your local machine exposing a socket on port 5555, it then waits for clients to connect to this socket. Clients are presented with a Menu from which they can choose to;
- add a word
- remove a word
- find the anagram for a word
The server can handle multiple clients connecting at the same time.
###client
Runs the program as a client, it looks for a server running on the localhost and tries to connect
using port 5555. Upon connecting successfully with a server running locally, you are presented with a
menu from which you can select what to do. Type quit program to exit the program.
###Dictionary The dictionary it uses comes embedded in the program, it is loaded in a case-insensitive manner. The dictionary removes all duplicates when it is loaded.