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macourtney7

Reputation: 541

How to build neo4j-jdbc driver from official repo?

I wanted to use the neo4j-jdbc (https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-jdbc) to connect to my Neo4j 3.0 server. I'd like to build the driver myself so that I can add it to another project as a jar file. I'm struggling to understand the readme on the official repo.

Could someone please explain how to do this, I'm hoping to clone the repo and build in Eclipse. I understand how to clone the repo it's how you go about building the driver.

Many thanks,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 85

Answers (1)

Julian
Julian

Reputation: 344

As you said in the comments it seems that you want to simply connect to a Neo4j server, and as most people recommend you should use Maven or Gradle to work with your dependecies.

For that you're gonna need to create a new Maven Project:

New Maven Project

and when you finish creating you're gonna have a project similar to this one, the one file you're looking to add this capability to connect to Neo4j is the pom.xml:

Project path

To be able to connect to Neo4j simply add this to the <dependencies></dependencies> tag:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.neo4j</groupId>
  <artifactId>neo4j-jdbc</artifactId>
  <version>3.0</version>
</dependency>

Here's an example of a pom.xml created automaticly by a Spring Starter Project:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>demo</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>

<name>demo</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.6.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Upvotes: 1

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