About JMDB
Why JMDB?
We, the authors of this software, are movie enthusiast and had this idea of a simple and quick movie database program that runs without connection to the internet on a stand-alone PC.
We preferred Java because it's platform independent and thought it would be a useful language for this. That this was the right choice which has been confirmed by the users. These users also had some requests, some these requests have been implemented and some are still on our todo-list (e.g. built-in ftp client with automatic file selection, list-file update checker, etc.).
Because the users are from all over the world (see the following picture..only August 2006) the Java Movie Database has been upgraded with the release of version 1.30 to support multiple languages (currently these are English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Serbian, Chinese (Mainland and Taiwan) and Italian. The Italian language file has been provided in September 2009 and will be added to the next release.
Website access in August 2006 (click to view larger image)
We still need volunteers to translate the language files to other languages - please support us. There is NO programming skill or experience necessary to help us. You only need a text editor (e.g. EPM, vi(m), Notepad, etc.) to change the language file!
Features
- uses the Earth's Biggest Movie Database ™ available
- easy access to this information
- speed: searching of movies will take less then 2 seconds (the very first search takes some seconds longer), displaying complete information on one of them (~44 db tables) another 2 seconds (tested with a 2,4 GHz Windows machine running JMDB and also the database)
- using of threads for searches and database converter for better feedback when waiting for the SQL database server and for making multiple parallel searches
- movie collections for viewing your DVD, HD-DVD, Blue-ray (BD) or VHS movies list inside JMDB
- ability to make every possible combination of search requests
- mostly platform independent, runs on Linux, Mac OS X, any Unix, Windows, OS/2, eComStation,...
- the produced MySQL or PostgreSQL database can be accessed by other applications that can access MySQL or PostgreSQL
- easy installation with Windows and OS/2 installer packages, zip-file is also available for all OSes
Screenshots
Here you can see some screenshots (first row using english and second row using german language):
Screenshots of JMDB v1.35 (click to view larger image)
You can find even more screenshots in the Documentation.
