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Appendix C. Setting up your project to use SDN
This appendix will walk you through the setup instructions required to run SDN. Specific-
ally, these instructions are for version 3.2.1.RELEASE of SDN, which is officially compat-
ible with Neo4j 2.1.5. The SDN 3.2.1.RELEASE version is the one referred to in the dedic-
ated SDN chapter ( chapter 10 ) , and it's the version used by the accompanying source code
as well.
The easiest way to configure your project to use SDN is through a Maven build, which
is also used for the accompanying source code. General instructions for setting up and in-
stalling Maven are provided in appendix B . SDN can also be built with Gradle or Ant/Ivy if
you'd like; instructions for how to do this can be found at http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/
data-neo4j/docs/current/reference/html/#setup .
ThisappendixwillalsoprovidedetailsoftheminimalSpringconfigurationrequiredtomake
SDN function appropriately.
Depending on whether you want to make use of the simple or the advanced mapping mode,
the setup will be a bit different. The source code for chapter 9 provides a configured setup
for both simple and advanced mapping modes.
The most up-to-date set of instructions, as well as options not specified here, can be found
in Michael Hunger's Good Relationships : http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/data-neo4j/docs/
current/reference/html/#setup .
SDN versions and official documentation references
This topic targets SDN version 3.2.1, compatible with Neo4j version 2.1.5. As you can ap-
preciate, writing a book while trying to keep up with the latest versions of open source soft-
ware can be challenging at the best of times. To ensure you always have links to the latest
information, we have endeavored to use references that point to the latest stable release of
the official documentation. At the time of writing, all SDN documentation URLs follow a
common pattern, namely http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/data-neo4j/docs/<version>/refer-
ence/html whereversionistheSDNversionofthedocsyouwishtoview,withcurrentbeing
an alias that always points to the latest, most stable released version.