Hi Vipul, I saw the same issue when trying to expose an embedded Neo4j database (plus some other things) via a Spring webapp.
*"Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to lock store [\neo4j\db\project\graph-project\neostore], this is usually a result of some other Neo4j kernel** running using the same store." * The problem was that I was trying to instantiate the GraphDatabaseService from two components with a new(). I ended up building a factory that instantiates a singleton and returns a reference to the same GraphDatabaseService using a getInstance() method to all the components that need a handle to it. In my spring config I declare the bean containing the GraphDatabaseService (nodeService) like so: <bean id="nodeService" class="...NodeServiceFactory" factory-method="getInstance" destroy-method="destroy"/> where the NodeServiceFactory exposes 2 static methods getInstance() that returns the singleton reference and destroy which closes the reference on application shutdown. In the app, where I was doing a nodeService = new NodeService(), I replaced with nodeService = NodeService.getInstance(). -sujit _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user