Using Spring Data Neo4J in JBoss J2EE application

[barnesjd]

Hey guys,

I have an old J2EE application that is deployed on JBoss. We have some new requirements which I believe will be solved much cleaner with Neo4J than with Hibernate ORM which we are using today. My familiarity with Spring begins and ends with some tinkering I've done with Grails 2.0. I don't know enough about Spring in general, much less Spring Data to understand how I might deploy it along with my current J2EE application.

What I would like to do is develop a hot-deployable application using Spring Data and Neo4J. I want it to be independent of my current application, but of course use it from my current application. Eventually, I anticipate this Neo4J project to be deployed separately in a different application. Can I deploy these Spring Data objects as EJB entity beans or something like that?

Thanks for the help!
Joe

[barnesjd]

*crickets*

So... should I have not said "JBoss"? lol

I guess I'll just have to play with it once I get time. My hope is that it is as simple as a jar file, but I imagine that Spring requires more than just a plain ol' JVM to do its magic.

[bytor99999]

Well, it actually isn't a Spring Data question. It is how do I connect my Spring ApplicationContext to EJBs I have already created and deployed. And there is the Core Spring forum for questions like that, but also tons and tons of tutorials you can find on Google. I am not really saying "Google it" but well.

There are also other options, like using the NEO4J server with REST apis and just call them directly from your EJBs, but then you don't get the Spring Data niceties. So what I said above.

Good Luck

Mark

[barnesjd]

Well, it actually isn't a Spring Data question. It is how do I connect my Spring ApplicationContext to EJBs I have already created and deployed. And there is the Core Spring forum for questions like that, but also tons and tons of tutorials you can find on Google. I am not really saying "Google it" but well.

No doubt, I will Google THAT question. Thanks for clarifying what question I should be asking.

There are also other options, like using the NEO4J server with REST apis and just call them directly from your EJBs, but then you don't get the Spring Data niceties. So what I said above.

Spring Data just looks to be too powerful to pass up. Also, I hope to migrate my team's project in the direction of Spring as we move forward into some new domains.

Thanks, Mark!

Joe

[bytor99999]

I agree Spring Data is something no one else provides.

Check this in the docs. This might be the cleanest solution.

http://static.springsource.org/sprin...mentation-ejb3

If you find ones about making an object ApplicationContextAware, that is the other solution, but has a couple of hoops to jump through, using an EJB interceptor might be cleaner

[barnesjd]

Check this in the docs. This might be the cleanest solution.

http://static.springsource.org/sprin...mentation-ejb3

Thanks again for this tip. I find the entire page to be useful to help me understand some of the relevant Spring concepts. It's funny because every time I read up on Spring, I either find something truly novel or something that I've attempted to implement myself for the exact same reasons. If only we could have used Spring all along...