This book uses six tables in the Sakila sample database which is a fictitious database designed to represent a DVD rental store. The database consists of 15 tables including film, film_category, actor, customer, rental, payment and inventory among others. The Sakila sample database is intended to provide a standard schema that can be used for examples in books, tutorials, articles, samples, and so forth.

In this book, as part 1, you will develop step by step tutorial object-oriented programming and Java GUI using NetBeans to implement the first six tables in sakila database: actor, language, film, category, film_category, and film_actor tables.