TopMovies

TopMovies is a movie recommendation prototype. The project focuses on user experience design and validating the recommendation approach, not on a full production deployment.

Architecture overview

• The entire application runs on Java 25.
• UI and backend are built with the Ujorm library (no extra frameworks or unnecessary dependencies).
• The app uses servlets (Jakarta Servlet API) and plain JavaScript without a front-end framework.
• The application runs on the H2 relational database and is prepared for deployment on PostgreSQL.

Limited functionality

• This is a prototype – the application does not yet contain real production data.
• The movie recommendation algorithm is not implemented yet (concept and UI are in place).
• Data and texts are mostly demo seed content to verify application behavior.

Recommendation philosophy

The goal is to recommend movies based on the user's own preferences: the system compares taste with other users and suggests titles liked by people with similar ratings.

• Input comes from user preferences and ratings.
• Recommendations are based on user similarity ("people with similar taste").
• A later phase will add real data and recommendation quality metrics.

Technology

• Java and Jakarta Servlet API (server side).
• Ujorm ORM and Ujorm Element (data and models) – ujorm.org
• Vanilla JavaScript (simple client layer without a framework).

Source code and references

• The source code of this application is not publicly available.
• The Ujorm PetStore reference project: github.com/pponec/ujorm-petstore

Author contact

Project author: github.com/pponec