Stig Lau wrote on using Groovy, Neo4j and Maven together.
The result is a Groovy demo on top of Neo4j, distributed as a Maven archetype. Setting it up on your machine is a single Maven command. Stig concludes:
Want to learn more about graph databases? Click below to get your free copy of O’Reilly’s Graph Databases ebook and discover how to use graph technologies for your application today. Download My EbookGroovy just might have a nice syntax for writing the data-entries. However, I didn’t get it up and running as proposed, and therefore I am quite happy with getting a demo up and running on Groovy, and am passing the task of making the proposition work to Guillaume and the Neo4J team.