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Innovate. Share. Connect.Chicago June 12-13
Keeping User Generated Content Keeping User Generated Content Flexible with Neo4jFlexible with Neo4j
Greg JordanGreg Jordan
My background• Manager of Web Development at Methodist Le Bonheur
Healthcare
• Ph.D. candidate focusing on qualitative usability
• 15 years of programming experience
• Java
• Content management systems
• Mobile development (iOS, Android and, yes, Blackberry)
• Working with Neo4j for about a year
Motivation & Goals• Project Motivation
• It’s the right tool
• Growth of graph DB usage
• Goals
• Build UI to create flexible structure
• Generate input markup from structure
• Generate input rules from structure
• Generate list & item display markup
• Speed kills
Mustache• "logic-less": no explicit control flow statements
• all control driven by data
• strong "separating logic from presentation”
• it is impossible to embed application logic in the Mustache templates*
* Depends on how you define logic
Mustache.java
Sam Pullara@sampullara
• Works well with progressive enhancement
• Mock data is replaced at runtime
• Used at twitter & netflix
Spring Data Neo4j• Object-Graph-Mapping of annotated POJO entities
• Neo4jTemplate with convenient API, exception translation and optional transaction management
• Cross-store support for partial JPA - Graph Entities
Why Neo4j?• A native java API
• Access via a RESTful server protocol
• There are lots of language bindings
• Proven with customers like Cisco, Adobe and Jive