Java Movie Database is a Java based application for searching and getting information about movies, actors and all that has to do with these. It's planned that JMDB will be an open source project in future, that means that the source code will then be available.

The information is the same as you can get when using the IMDb web page. It counts more than 300.000 movies and 600.000 actors and actresses.

The difference is that JMDB is an alternative form of navigating through this information, is able to run on a stand-alone PC just as in a network environment.

Another advantage is that you can write your own programs to use the same locally installed database you have after running the JMDB database converter.

For using JMDB, you only need a Java Runtime environment and the database MySQL, which means that you can run it on most platforms, including Windows, Linux, any Unix, OS/2.