Spring Data Graph - Neo4j Support 1.0.0.M4 Released

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that a new milestone release (1.0.0.M4) of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support is now available!
The primary goal of the <b>Spring Data</B> project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.
The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database.

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To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data Homepage.

The features in Spring Data Graph 1.0.0 M4 include:

• update to Neo4j-1.3.M04
• simplification of detached/attached state
• all node entities are detached at creation, must call persist()
• attach() renamed to persist()
• separate indices per domain class
• support for fulltext indices
• fixed direct lookup of numerically indexed values
• relationships via relateTo are now also restricted to one per type,direction and target
• added EntityPath/EntityPathMapper for entity based Neo4jTemplate callbacks
• added EntityEvaluator for entity based path evaluation
• error handling for node type strategy called on non type nodes
• FieldTraversalDescriptionBuilder build method parametrization
• re-enabled, updated and fixed cross-store persistence
• graph managed fields no longer have to be annotated with @Transient (the aspect takes care of that)
• changed documentation format to guidebook, added tutorial as first part

Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

I also updated the examples for Spring Data Graph to the current M4 build.

You can find them here: http://github.com/springSource/sprin...graph-examples.

In doing that I also rewrote some parts of the IMDB app, so that the in-graph index now also used Spring Data Graph, that cut down the necessary code to almost the half size (180 lines to about 100).

Cheers

Michael