Neo4j Java Driver

A database driver for a new Neo4j remoting protocol.

Minimum viable snippet

Add the driver to your project:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.neo4j.driver</groupId>
        <artifactId>neo4j-java-driver</artifactId>
        <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Connect to a Neo4j 3.0.0+ database

Driver driver = GraphDatabase.driver( "bolt://localhost" );

Session session = driver.session();

StatementResult rs = session.run("CREATE (n) RETURN n");

session.close();

driver.close();

Building

Java version

If you are running Java 8:

mvn clean install

If you are running Java 7, you need to also provide an environment variable telling the tests where to find Java 8, because Neo4j-the-database needs it to run.

export NEO4J_JAVA=<path/to/java/home>
mvn clean install

# For instance
export NEO4J_JAVA=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)

Windows

If you are building on windows, you need to run install as admin so that Neo4j-the-database could be registered as a windows service and then be started and stopped correctly using its powershell scripts for windows.