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Re: Writing a Movie Datab

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Johs wrote:
> I would like to write a simple movie Database in java. When run it
> should open a gui where all the movies are listed with the following info:
>
> title, DVD-Number, Genre
>
> It should be possible to add more columns later on. It should also be
> possible to sort by genre and, title etc and print all the info to a pdf
> file.
>
> I hope its not necessary to use MySQL since its rather simple to just
> keep all the movie info in a plain text file.
>
>
> Any hints do some tutorials on this and classes that I should look into?

This is pretty clearly a database project, so I would recommend you use
a database. A little prep at the beginning and you will have a much
more flexible system. Design your DB in MySQL, with columns for the
DVD#, Genre, Title, and maybe Star and SecondStar, or whatever. Then,
look into JasperReports. Free (except for the documentation), and it
can create PDFs as well as regular reports. Create a few reports in
Jasper and your actual Java front end should be quite simple to create
and maintain.

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