Design problems

Question

I am having a really bad issue with design. I am creating a database application for an athletics events. I have 5 tables. These are Meet, Events, Heats, Competitors and Times. Now a Meet can have many Events, an Event can have many Heats, a Heat can have many Competitors who can have many Times.
I am trying to design this through GUI. I have created a Meet gui which require some inputs and it has a button on it called Add Events. This button calls up my Events Gui which has fields on it and a button which has Add Heats which........ As you can see this way is going to bring up too many gui's and i am going to have issues when more than one event, heat or competitor needs to be entered.
The only other way i can think of doing it is to have one gui with all the buttons, e.g. Add Event, but then i am going to have an issue relating the events to the heat id's or Meet id etc.
My tables and java Objects are
public class Meet implements Serializable
   private String id;
   private Date date;
   private List<Event> events = new ArrayList<Event>();
public class Event implements Serializable
private String eveId;
private String meetId;
private String eveName;
private List<Heat> heats = new ArrayList<Heat>();
public class Event implements Serializable
private String eveId;
private String meetId;
private String eveName;
private List<Heat> heats = new ArrayList<Heat>();
public class Heat implements Serializable
private String heatId;
private String eveId;
private List<Induvidual> ind = new ArrayList<Induvidual>();
public class Induvidual implements Serializable
private String indId;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
public class HeatInduvidual implements Serializable
private String heatId;
private String indId;
private Time indTime;My one to many relationships are the variables with List. What sort of design could i do in order to gather all the information, even if multiple information need to be gathered (many events etc)

Answer 1

If you are using MS Word and in the middle of editing one document, you want to edit another totally different, what do you do? You go to File - Open and open a dialog that allows you to search for other documents, and this search can be based on several different criteria.
Well why not borrow this idea for your program? How about having class with a find or searchFor functionality that in its GUI incarnation could have comboboxes whose contents change depending on what was inputted into comboboxes above? or could have various ways of finding different things - finding meets, finding Individuals (note spelling here), etc... It's your program, and you can do anything you want here. Good luck.