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Java Web Server's Movie Finder

Java Web Server's Movie Finder, a movie database serach engine, displays the power of the Java Web Server, its servlet architecture, and the JDBC Database Access API.

Directions for Use

To use Java Web Server's Movie Finder, please:
  1. Enter a search string in the text field,
  2. Select a category to search in,
  3. Select any results of interest to you, and
  4. Try another search string or category!

Notes on search strings

  1. Names should be in 'lastname, firstname' format.
    ex) not Sean Connery, but Connery, Sean
  2. If the string is in all lowercase, the search is case insensitive.
    If in mixed cases, the search is case sensitive.

Technical Background

Java Web Server's Movie Finder demonstrates a "Java applet/Java Web Server servlet" pair. The front end/applet talks to the JDBC servlet in the Java Web Server. The JDBC servlet translates queries from the front end to the database and conveys the response from the database to the front end/applet. In this particular case, information about 500 popular movies (from The Internet Movie Database) populates the database.

Credits

Java Web Server's Movie Finder is possible due to the hard work of Jong Yoon Lee, Michael C. Albers, Scott Atwood, Osana Tishkova, Mark Hapner, Pavani Diwanji, Bryce Glass, and other members of the Java Web Server team.

The Java Web Server team would also like to extend our appreciation to Intersolv for the ODBC driver, and especially to The Internet Movie Database for a subset of their movie information for this demo.

IMDB The movie data for this demo comes courtesy of The Internet Movie Database with kind permission. Copyright 1990-1996 by The Internet Movie Database Ltd.

Please visit their site for information not available here.



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