Hi RR, that sounds fantastic. Do you think you could put this email body into a blog post? It already has the necessary format and depth.
We could perhaps also have a guest post on Neo4j.org that covers that. Looking forward to your release. It would be very nice if you could put up a small sample project using your setup and package so that people can get started easily. Do you think it would be possible to write server side extensions to neo4j server in javascript using the JDK script engine with Rhino and your convenient package? Thanks so much for you effort. Michael Am 07.06.2011 um 08:36 schrieb McKinley: > I recently completed a project using RingoJS (http://ringojs.org), a > Javascript web framework, and Neo4j. Both platforms were remarkably pleasant > to work with. I had been developing with the Play framework (Java) for over > a year. That was enjoyable and the type checking is great. With a Javascript > web framework I miss the type checking, but it is nice that RingoJS uses one > language, JavaScript, for everything– configuration, routing, handlers, > controllers and templates (via mustache in this case). It is fun to think in > only one space for a change. > > I have been using the excellent Querydsl API (http://www.querydsl.com) for > SQL queries also for over a year. I have been suffering the least of SQL > practitioners with excellent type checking and conditional query > construction. Part of my attraction to Querydsl has been how easily it > allows one to optimize queries programmatically to get the best performance > in a given situation. Actually needing good performance in important > situations has been what caused me to look for a next generation database > that was talking about the right features. > > I first heard about Neo4j some time in the last year. The open source > license changes where what got me to seriously consider Neo4j. It is > important for me to always work with a software stack that does not come > with immediate licensing costs before support or high scale features are > needed. I think relicensing Neo4j was a great move for increasing adoption > and I hope you soon gain many commercial clients that have learned they have > been depending on Neo4j for some time and now need more from it :) > > Working with Neo4j and RingoJS has been fun. The only trouble I had was > trying to create enum-like structures in JavaScript whose properties behave > like Java final. That proved to be simple, but a novelty because one doesn't > typically create shared immutable structures in JavaScript. I created a > RingoJS package for Neo4j (release pending) that manages the Neo4j jars > files and exposes a config file format for embedding one or many Neo4j > databases. Excluding index configuration (if desired) a config file only > needs 4 statements. Here is an example: > > /*** example db.js ***/ > export("db", "relTypes"); > var {DbContext, RelationshipTypes} = require("neo4j-graphdb"); > var db = new DbContext("data/db1"); > var relTypes = new RelationshipTypes(["PEOPLE", "PERSON", "PLACES", "PLACE", > "LIVES_AT"]); > /*** end example ***/ > > With the above example any RingoJS action can use the database by including > the simple statement var {db, relTypes} = require("./db"). The db object > exposes one function getDb (or getGraphDb) and you can imagine the rest from > there. > > I will release a RingoJS package for Neo4j soon. Please let me know if you > have any questions. If you would like to arrange a demonstration of Neo4j > and RingoJS at your local meetup in San Francisco, Orange County or San > Diego please let me know. I would love to present this effective and > interesting combination and answer more questions. > > Thanks and kind regards, > > RR McKinley > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
