Movies Example Application

How to use Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Neo4j together.

Spring Data Neo4j enables convenient integration of Neo4j in your Spring-based application. It provides object-graph mapping (OGM) functionality and other features common to the Spring Data projects.

Note	This project uses Spring Data Neo4j 6. The previous version, using SDN 5 + OGM can still be accessed under the https://github.com/neo4j-examples/movies-java-spring-data-neo4j/tree/sdn5-ogm branch.

Note	For a broader overview of Spring Data Neo4j 6 with the same dataset, you can access the https://github.com/neo4j-examples/movies-java-spring-data-neo4j/tree/sdn6-full-example branch.

The example project is described in detail on the Neo4j Developer Site

The project uses Java 17.

The Stack

These are the components of our Web Application:

• Application Type: Spring-Boot Java Web Application

• Web framework: Spring-Boot enabled Spring-WebMVC

• Persistence Access: Spring-Data-Neo4j 6.x

• Database: Neo4j-Server 4.4, or 5.x

• Frontend: jquery, bootstrap, d3.js

Provision a database quickly with Neo4j Sandbox or Neo4j Aura.

Configuration options

Environment variable name	Default value (or N/A)
PORT	8080
NEO4J_URI	neo4j+s://demo.neo4jlabs.com
NEO4J_USER	movies
NEO4J_PASSWORD	movies
NEO4J_DATABASE	movies
NEO4J_VERSION	4

Please set NEO4J_VERSION to 3.5 when running Neo4j 3.5.x. Leave as is otherwise.