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Table of Contents

Foreword by Rod Johnson
Foreword by Emil Eifrem
About this guide book

• The Spring Data Neo4j Project
• Feedback
• Format of the Book
• Acknowledgements

I. Tutorial

• Introducing our project
• The Spring stack
• Required setup
• The domain model
• Learning Neo4j
• Spring Data Neo4j
• Annotating the domain
• Indexing
• Repositories
• Relationships
Creating relationships
Accessing related entities
Accessing the relationship entities

• Get it running
Populating the database
Inspecting the datastore
Neoclipse visualization
The Neo4j Shell

• Web views
Searching
Listing results

• Adding social
Users
Ratings for movies

• Adding Security
• More UI
• Importing Data
• Recommendations
• Neo4j Server
Getting Neo4j-Server
Other approaches

• Conclusion

II. Reference Documentation

• Reference Documentation
Spring Data and Spring Data Neo4j
Reference Documentation Overview

• Introduction to Neo4j
What is a graph database?
About Neo4j
GraphDatabaseService
Creating nodes and relationships
Graph traversal
Indexing
Querying the Graph with Cypher
Gremlin a Graph Traversal DSL

• Programming model
Object Graph Mapping
Advanced Mapping with AspectJ
AspectJ IDE support
Simple Object Graph Mapping
Defining node entities
@NodeEntity: The basic building block
@GraphId: Neo4j -id field
@GraphProperty: Optional annotation for property fields
@Indexed: Making entities searchable by field value
@Query: fields as query result views
@GraphTraversal: fields as traversal result views
Relating node entities
@RelatedTo: Connecting node entities
@RelationshipEntity: Rich relationships
@RelatedToVia: Accessing relationship entities
Indexing
Exact and numeric index
Fulltext indexes
Manual index access
Index queries in Neo4jTemplate
Neo4j Auto Indexes
Spatial Indexes
Neo4jTemplate
Basic operations
Result
Indexing
Graph traversal
Cypher Queries
Gremlin Scripts
Transactions
Neo4j REST Server
CRUD with repositories
CRUDRepository
IndexRepository and NamedIndexRepository
TraversalRepository
Query and Finder Methods
CypherDSL repository
Creating repositories
Composing repositories
Projecting entities
Geospatial Queries
Active Record Methods for Advanced Mapping Mode
Transactions
Detached node entities in advanced mapping mode
Relating detached entities
Entity type representation
Bean validation (JSR-303)

• Environment setup
Dependencies for Spring Data Neo4j Simple Mapping
Gradle configuration for Advanced Mapping (AspectJ)
Ant/Ivy configuration for Advanced Mapping (AspectJ)
Maven configuration for Advanced Mapping
Repositories
Dependencies
Maven AspectJ build configuration
Spring configuration
XML namespace
Repository Configuration
Java-based bean configuration

• Cross-store persistence
Partial entities
Cross-store annotations
@NodeEntity(partial = "true")
@GraphProperty
Example
Configuring cross-store persistence

• Sample code
Introduction
Hello Worlds sample application
IMDB sample application
MyRestaurants sample application
MyRestaurant-Social sample application
Cineasts social movie database

• Heroku: Seeding the Cloud
Create a Self-Hosted Web Application
Deploy to Heroku

• Performance considerations
  When to use Spring Data Neo4j
• AspectJ details
• Neo4j Server
Server Extension
Using Spring Data Neo4j as a REST client

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