Cinema Tickets Terminal

This is a coursework project assigned as part of the 2nd year Software Engineering class. The idea was to develop a GUI ticketing terminal where customers can browse current movies, leave reviews and obviously buy tickets.

The app architecture gernally follows an MVC pattern with views, models and controllers separated in dedicated packages. The backend uses ActiveJDBC (a Java ORM that follows ActiveRecord pattern) and the frontend GUI was developed using Java's Swing. All of the backend Models and Controllers have been tested in a TDD fashion with JUnit, Java's unit testing framework.

How it works

Select among the services of terminal

Create an account

Browse movies, write movie reviews and read reviews by other customers.

Choose a screening time and book your seats

Print your tickets

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How to run it

As requested in specification this application has been developed as a true networked machine with its database stored in the cloud. As such, before running this application, you'll need to be connected to the internet. The data has been already preloaded into that database, so all you have to do is run MainFrame.java. The application will automatically connect to the database and will be ready for interaction with preloaded data.

Unfortunatelly we didn't have time to complete Admin interface so if you wish to load your own data, you can run Java code using controller methods (see examples in DataInjector.java file). E.g. this adds a new Movie to the database:

Base.open("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", "jdbc:mysql://db4free.net:3306/picturehouse", "picturehouse", "$password");
MovieController controller = new MovieController();
controller.create("Inception", "http://www.youtube.com", "A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible.", Date.valueOf(lastWednesdayDate));
Base.close();