Installation and the First Query - Neo4j Essentials - page 9

Installing Neo4j Community Edition on
Windows
This section will guide you through the end-to-end process of Neo4j installation on the
Windows operating system. At the end of this section, you will have a fully functional
Neo4j instance running on your Windows desktop / server.
Perform the following steps in order to install Neo4j on Windows:
1. Download and install Oracle Java 7 available at http://www.oracle.com/technet-
work/java/javase/documentation/install-windows-152927.html or Open JDK 7
available at https://jdk7.java.net/download.html .
2. Open the environment variables and set the JAVA_HOME variable.
Neo4j can be installed and executed as a Windows service or it can also be downloaded as
a .zip file, where after installation you need to execute a .bat script to run it as a stan-
dalone application.
Further in this section, we will talk about the steps involved in installing Neo4j as a service
and standalone archive.