Re: [Neo4j] Choosing frontend language with neo4j as backend

2011-06-18 Thread Josh Adell
Hey Manav, There is a PHP REST client available on github at https://github.com/jakewins/Neo4j.php . I'm also in the process of building my own at https://github.com/jadell/Neo4jPHP, though that one is not ready for production yet. All-in-all, I've found the REST API very responsive and easy to

Re: [Neo4j] Choosing frontend language with neo4j as backend

2011-06-18 Thread Jim Webber
Hello Manav, > Thanks for the reply. Can u elaborate more on how much slow is this > Rest api so that I can get the idea of how to manage my traversals and > interactions. The cost per interaction is the network cost + transaction cost. You can make this super expensive by, for example, cre

Re: [Neo4j] Choosing frontend language with neo4j as backend

2011-06-18 Thread Manav Goel
Hey Thanks for the reply. Can u elaborate more on how much slow is this Rest api so that I can get the idea of how to manage my traversals and interactions. Moreover using javascript will there be any security issues? I checked out groovy after suggestion of Marko.It looks gud. So groovy can

Re: [Neo4j] Choosing frontend language with neo4j as backend

2011-06-18 Thread Jim Webber
Hi Manav, Although the REST API isn't as flexible as the native JVM API, it's still suitable for large projects. You just have to be even more careful about your design. This means it is suitable for PHP, and I've seen the a lot of PHP activity on the neo4j twitter stream in the last few days.

Re: [Neo4j] Choosing frontend language with neo4j as backend

2011-06-18 Thread Marko Rodriguez
Hi Manav, You may want to consider Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org/). Why? 1. It is an easy to learn scripting language with constructs nearly analogous to Ruby. 2. It is a superset of Java so you can do Java programming if you wish. 3. You can use it as a REPL or thro

[Neo4j] Choosing frontend language with neo4j as backend

2011-06-18 Thread Manav Goel
Hi I am working on neo4j for past 2 months and found it everything which I needed. But the problem coming is integrating it with php.I was looking into php-java bridge and it looks a headache. Python binding of neo4j are old and there is not much on net to work with it. My teammates dont wan