
Jeeves' Movie Finder
Jeeves' Movie Finder, a movie database serach engine, displays the
power of the Jeeves
server, its servlet
architecture, and the JDBC Database Access
API.
Directions for Use
To use Jeeves' Movie Finder, please:
- Enter a search string in the text field,
- Select a category to search in,
- Select any results of interest to you, and
- Try another search string or category!
Notes on search strings
- Names should be in 'lastname, firstname' format.
ex) not Sean Connery, but Connery, Sean
- If the string is in all lowercase,
the search is case insensitive.
If in mixed cases, the search is case sensitive.
Technical Background
Jeeves' Movie Finder demonstrates a "Java applet/Jeeves servlet"
pair. The front end/applet talks to the JDBC servlet in the Jeeves
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
Jeeves' 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 Jeeves team.
The Jeeves 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.
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.