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Re: Writing a Movie Datab

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>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?


Depending on the reason for you doing this I would consider the
following.
If your reasons are purly as an excersice to get better at java, I
would probably consider using a db, as that would involve using jdbc
and working with resultsets.
Of course the same goes for using plain textfiles as that would force
you to dig a bit into parsing textfiles, and also the design of the
textfiles. 
Either way you are in for a fun and interesting project. If I were you
I would go for the jdbc as that will probably prove to be good
knowledge for you in the future. 

If your reason for writing this is for a school project, I would talk
to your teacher, because I am sure that s/he would be more than happy
to give you a few pointers on what would be a good practise. 

If your reason for writing this is to have a movie database with your
own collection of movies, I would look around the net. 
I recently wrote a opensource program that can do exactly what you are
after, it is still in development but since it is open source you can
get the source and hack away at it if you like. 


regards
Daniel
www.daik.se (with a link to my mediaorganizer I mentioned in the post)

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Re: Writing a Movie Datab "Daniel" <daniel@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:27 +0000

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