Neo4J with Spring at my browser

Question

I am new at NoSQL graphs databases. I am learning Neo4J with Java througth https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-neo4j/. How can I see my nodes that I created by Java at the http address http://localhost:7474/browser/ ?

Answer 1

That guide uses an embedded Neo4j instance, which is accessible within the Java application. Specifically, this code:

@Bean
GraphDatabaseService graphDatabaseService() {
    return new GraphDatabaseFactory().newEmbeddedDatabase("accessingdataneo4j.db");
}

is creating an embedded Neo4j instance in the current working directory with the name accessingdataneo4j.db. To use the Neo4j Browser you'll need to run Neo4j Server. Follow the instructions here to download and install Neo4j.

If you are using the Mac or Windows desktop application you can select the location for the embedded database your created previously - just point the "Database Location" to the location of accessingdataneo4j.db that you created and start the server. Then you can access the Neo4j Browser at http://localhost:7474

If you are not using the desktop application you can set the location of the database directory in conf/neo4j-server.properties:

org.neo4j.server.database.location=/path/to/accessingdataneo4j.db