Cinema Booking App

Contents

• Overview
• Technologies Used
• Purpose of Project
• Using the Project Yourself
• How the Project Works
• Project Status
• Room for Improvement

Overview

This is a cinema booking application that runs in a Graphical User Interface or, optionally, in the terminal.

Technologies Used

• Java 18
• MongoDB Atlas
• JavaFX

Purpose of Project

The project was created alongside my studies of Year 1 Computer Science.

This project demonstrates my continued learning of programming principles and technologies, including:

• JDBC (MongoDB Atlas)
• Java Concurrency
• JavaFX
• File I/O
• Exception Handling
• JUnit testing
• Responsibility-driven design
• Cohesion & Coupling
• Maintainability

Using the Project Yourself

Paste the following commands into your terminal.

Method 1

1. Download the cinema.jar file:

curl -LO https://github.com/harirathod/cinema-booking-application/raw/main/out/artifacts/cinema_jar/cinema.jar

2. Start the application with the following command:

java -jar -Dusername="<database-username>" -Dpassword="<database-password>" cinema.jar

Method 2

1. Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/harirathod/cinema-booking-application.git

2. Start the application with the following command:

java -jar -Dusername="<database-username>" -Dpassword="<database-password>" cinema-booking-application/out/artifacts/cinema_jar/cinema.jar

Note: Please make sure you have the JDK (Java Development Kit) installed.

Note 2: The user must provide the database password and username at the CLI. Typically, the customer doesn't provide database credentials when booking movie tickets, but this aspect was not a key focus of my application. Hence, I have intentionally simplified the process by requesting for credentials always.

And you're done! You can now try out the cinema booking application through a Graphical User Interface!

How the Project Works

TODO

Any tickets booked by the user are written to "tickets.ser", so are stored persistently. These tickets can be viewed with the 'basket' command.

Project Status

This project is completed.