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Table of Contents

Foreword by Rod Johnson
Foreword by Emil Eifrem
About this guide book

• The Spring Data Neo4j Project
• Feedback
• Format of the Book
• Acknowledgements

I. Tutorial

• Introducing our project
• The Spring stack
• Required setup 
• The domain model
• Learning Neo4j
• Spring Data Neo4j
• Annotating the domain
• Indexing
• Repositories
• Relationships
    Creating relationships
    Accessing related entities
    Accessing the relationship entities

• Get it running
    Populating the database
    Inspecting the datastore
             Neoclipse visualization
             The Neo4j Shell

• Web views
     Searching
     Listing results

• Adding social
     Users
     Ratings for movies

• Adding Security
• More UI
• Importing Data
• Recommendations
• Neo4j Server
     Getting Neo4j-Server
     Other approaches

• Conclusion

II. Reference Documentation

• Reference Documentation
     Spring Data and Spring Data Neo4j
     Reference Documentation Overview

• Introduction to Neo4j
     What is a graph database?
     About Neo4j
     GraphDatabaseService
     Creating nodes and relationships
     Graph traversal
     Indexing
     Querying the Graph with Cypher
     Gremlin a Graph Traversal DSL

• Programming model
     Object Graph Mapping
     Advanced Mapping with AspectJ
             AspectJ IDE support
     Simple Object Graph Mapping
     Defining node entities
             @NodeEntity: The basic building block
             @GraphId: Neo4j -id field
             @GraphProperty: Optional annotation for property fields
             @Indexed: Making entities searchable by field value
             @Query: fields as query result views
             @GraphTraversal: fields as traversal result views
     Relating node entities
             @RelatedTo: Connecting node entities
             @RelationshipEntity: Rich relationships
             @RelatedToVia: Accessing relationship entities
     Indexing
             Exact and numeric index
             Fulltext indexes
             Manual index access
             Index queries in Neo4jTemplate
             Neo4j Auto Indexes
             Spatial Indexes
     Neo4jTemplate
             Basic operations
             Result
             Indexing
             Graph traversal
             Cypher Queries
             Gremlin Scripts
             Transactions
             Neo4j REST Server
     CRUD with repositories
             CRUDRepository
             IndexRepository and NamedIndexRepository
             TraversalRepository
             Query and Finder Methods
             CypherDSL repository
             Creating repositories
             Composing repositories
     Projecting entities
     Geospatial Queries
     Active Record Methods for Advanced Mapping Mode
     Transactions
     Detached node entities in advanced mapping mode
             Relating detached entities
     Entity type representation
     Bean validation (JSR-303)

• Environment setup
     Dependencies for Spring Data Neo4j Simple Mapping
     Gradle configuration for Advanced Mapping (AspectJ)
     Ant/Ivy configuration for Advanced Mapping (AspectJ)
     Maven configuration for Advanced Mapping
             Repositories 
             Dependencies
             Maven AspectJ build configuration
     Spring configuration 
             XML namespace
             Repository Configuration 
             Java-based bean configuration 

• Cross-store persistence
     Partial entities 
     Cross-store annotations 
             @NodeEntity(partial = "true") 
             @GraphProperty 
             Example 
     Configuring cross-store persistence 

• Sample code
     Introduction 
     Hello Worlds sample application 
     IMDB sample application 
     MyRestaurants sample application 
     MyRestaurant-Social sample application 
     Cineasts social movie database 

• Heroku: Seeding the Cloud
     Create a Self-Hosted Web Application 
     Deploy to Heroku 

• Performance considerations 
       When to use Spring Data Neo4j 
• AspectJ details
• Neo4j Server
     Server Extension 
     Using Spring Data Neo4j as a REST client