The Neo4j Java Developer Reference v4.1

Documentation license: Creative Commons 4.0

This document contains information on advanced Java-centric usage of Neo4j. Among the topics covered are embedding Neo4j in your own software and writing extensions.

You might want to keep the Neo4j JavaDocs handy while reading!

This reference covers the following areas:

Chapter 1, Extending Neo4j — How to build unmanaged extensions and procedures.
Chapter 2, Using Neo4j embedded in Java applications — Instructions on embedding Neo4j in an application.

Chapter 3, The traversal framework — A walkthrough of the traversal framework.

The traversal API described in this section been deprecated and will be removed in a later release of Neo4j.

Chapter 4, Transaction management — Details on transaction semantics in Neo4j.
Chapter 5, Online backup — How to perform an online backup in Java.
Chapter 6, JMX metrics — How to monitor Neo4j with JMX and a reference of available metrics.

Who should read this?

This reference is written for the advanced Java developer who is extending Neo4j’s functionality, or embedding Neo4j in their own software.