Other Tools Related to Neo4j - Learning Neo4j - page 160

Wewillzoomintooneofthesetoolsinthefollowingparagraphs,butwouldirst
like to clarify the mechanism through which these tools can interface with Neo4j.
Of course, they could integrate by calling the raw Neo4j REST API and submittin
speciicrequeststhisway,andwouldgetresponsesintherawestpossibleformat.
This type of integration would most likely require quite a bit of integration work,
but could be advised in certain more advanced use cases.
There are, however, many use cases that can be solved by using a standardized
integration mechanism that is overall well understood and readily available: most
of the tools mentioned previously provide a mechanism for integrating with a
standardized database interface called the Java Database Connectivity interface .
This technology is an API for the Java programming language thatdeineshowa
client may access a database. It provides methods for querying and updating data in
a database. By default, JDBC is oriented towards relational databases, but luckily for
our discussion, a great deal of work has gone into a JDBC driver for Neo4j. You can
download this driver from http://www.neo4j.org/develop/tools/jdbc and start
experimenting with it very quickly.
Working with the Neo4j JDBC connector