How to connect to a locally installed neo4j server using Java

Question

I'm new to Neo4J and couldn't find the answer to my question despite my hours of googling.

So far, I have been following the tutorials and now I have a basic understanding of how/when to use Neo4j. Now, I am about to start modifying my hello-world code and connect to a Neo4J server locally installed on my machine, accessible via http://127.0.0.1:7474.

Original connection (using an embedded database):

GraphDatabaseService gdb = new EmbeddedGraphDatabase("c:\\helloworld\\data\\graph.db");

The question is is there anyway to modify this line to connect to my "server" database in c:\neo4j\data\graph.db instead? The server is running currently as a windows service and I can view its database using the web admin tool. At this time, I am not interested in using the REST API since the server and the client app are running on the same machine.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here...

Answer 1

I couldn't find any example code on the wrapper so here is what I ended up doing.

EmbeddedGraphDatabase graphDb = new EmbeddedGraphDatabase("C:\\neo4j\\data\\graph.db");
WrappingNeoServerBootstrapper srv = new WrappingNeoServerBootstrapper(graphDb);
srv.start();
try {
    while (System.in.read() != 46) {
    // wait until we send a period (.) to kill the server
    }
} catch (IOException e) {}
srv.stop();

This will allow you to visit localhost:7474 and see the webadmin tool just like running the server but also continue with your usual Java code (write your own simple API using the input stream to read commands).