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Creating a Data Marvel (Comics)
Jennifer Reif
Developer Relations Engineer, Neo4j @JMHReif
Who is Jennifer?
- Neo4j Developer Relations Engineer
- Continuous learner
- Conference speaker
- Blogger
Creating a Data Marvel (Comics) Jennifer Reif Developer Relations - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating a Data Marvel (Comics) Jennifer Reif Developer Relations - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating a Data Marvel (Comics) Jennifer Reif Developer Relations Engineer, Neo4j @JMHReif Who is Jennifer? Neo4j Developer Relations Engineer Continuous learner Conference speaker Blogger What were building! Breaking it
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What we’re building!
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Breaking it down…
- Spring Boot application served up
and accessible from localhost
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Breaking it down…
- Spring Boot application served up
and accessible from localhost
- List of comics based on search for
Name
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Breaking it down…
- Spring Boot application served up
and accessible from localhost
- List of comics based on search for
Name
- Details of selected comic from list
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Breaking it down…
- Spring Boot application served up
and accessible from localhost
- List of comics based on search for
Name
- Details of selected comic from list
- Visualization of data in a graph
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What we need:
- Accessible from a web browser
- Pull real-time results from a data
store for user search
- Retrieve details and connections of
an entity to display
- Display a connected network of data
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Project inspiration
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Why graph?
- Connected data structure
- Easy for humans to read and visualize
- Pull relevant, varied data
- Works well with D3 library for visualizing
graph data in Neo4j
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Why Spring?
- Simple and familiar for others to copy
- Spring Boot’s reduction of boilerplate
- Spring Data’s easy connection to Neo4j
- BOLT, HTTP
, or embedded
- Create UI with application via a web page
- Thymeleaf
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Data model & choices
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Let’s see some CODE!!!
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Helpful Resources
- Source code: https://github.com/HecklerReifCollab/sdn-marvelcomics
- Spring Data Neo4j: https://spring.io/projects/spring-data-neo4j
- Neo4j: https://neo4j.com/developer/get-started/
- Spring (projects, guides, blog): https://spring.io
- Contact:
- Twitter/DMs: @JMHReif, @mkheck
- Email: jennifer.reif@neo4j.com
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Hunger Games Questions for “Creating a Data Marvel (Comics) with Spring and Neo4j”
- 1. Easy: What 2 technologies are used in this session?
- a. Spring and Neo4j
- b. Neo4j and Micronaut
- c. Marvel Comics and Graphs
- 2. Medium: What did Jennifer choose as the central entity in her Marvel data
model?
- a. Character
- b. Movie
- c. ComicIssue
- 3. Hard: What is the annotation used to tell Spring that it is a domain class?
- a. @GraphEntity
- b. @NodeEntity
- c. @Relationship
Answer here: r.neo4j.com/hunger-games