Get started quickly using MongoDB and Java.
Using the gradle wrapper to manage dependencies all that's needed to get up and running and connecting to MongoDB via the Java Driver is:
./gradlew quickStart
QuickStart.java will connect to the local MongoDB and count the number of documents in a test collection.
From there you can start and run test code or build your own application.
Each branch contains the source code for the various versions or you can download a zip directly: