Neo4j Java Driver

This is the first official Neo4j java driver for connecting to Neo4j-the-database via the newly designed remoting protocol BOLT.

Minimum viable snippet

Add the driver to your project:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.neo4j.driver</groupId>
        <artifactId>neo4j-java-driver</artifactId>
        <version>x.y.z</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

*Please check the Releases for the newest driver version available.

Connect to a Neo4j 3.0.0+ database:

Driver driver = GraphDatabase.driver( "bolt://localhost", AuthTokens.basic( "neo4j", "neo4j" ) );

try ( Session session = driver.session() )
{
    StatementResult rs = session.run( "CREATE (n) RETURN n" );
}

driver.close();

For more examples and details of usage, please refer to the [Driver Manual] (http://neo4j.com/docs/developer-manual/3.0/index.html#driver-manual-index).

Binding

The source code here reflects the current development status of a new driver version. If you want to use the driver in your products, please use the released driver via maven central or check out the code with git tags instead.

Java version

To compile the code and run all tests, you first need to prepare the neokit submodule which is used for integration tests:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Then 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 have Python (v2.7) installed and have Python.exe to be added in your system PATH variables. Then run install as admin, so that Neo4j-the-database could be installed and started with Python scripts for integration tests.

Or you could choose to ignore integration tests by running:

mvn clean install -DskipITs 

Without integration tests, there is no need to install Python or run as admin.

For more information such as manual, driver API documentations, changelogs, please refer to wiki.