Neo4j Spatial Geoserver Plugin

Tested with: GeoServer 2.1.1

Building

mvn clean install

Deployment into Geoserver

unzip the target/xxxx-server-plugin.zip into $GEOSERVER_HOME/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib
restart geoserver
configure a new workspace
configure a new datasource neo4j in your workspace. Point the "The directory path of the Neo4j database:" parameter to the relative (form the GeoServer working dir) or aboslute path to a Neo4j Spatial database with layers (see Neo4j Spatial)
in Layers, do "Add new resource" and choose your Neo4j datastore to see the exisitng Neo4j Spatial layers and add them.

Testing in GeoServer trunk

check out the geoserver source

svn co https://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk geoserver-trunk

build the source

cd geoserver-trunk
mvn clean install

check that you can run the web app as of The GeoServer Maven build guide

cd src/web/app
mvn jetty:run

in $GEOSERVER_SOURCE/src/web/app/pom.xml (https://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/src/web/app/pom.xml), add the following lines under the profiles section:

    <profile>
      <id>neo4j</id>
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.neo4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>neo4j-spatial</artifactId>
          <version>0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
    </profile>

start the GeoServer webapp again with the added neo4j profile

cd $GEOSERVER_SRC/src/web/app
mvn jetty:run -Pneo4j

find Neo4j installed as a datasource under http://localhost:8080

For more info head over to Neo4j Wiki on Geoserver