首先，安装neo4j数据库。我的开发环境是Ubuntu，安装过程参考官网：Neo4j Debian Packages，安装后配置：Post-installation tasks。

然后安装Neo4j Spatial的插件，参加Github介绍：neo4j-contrib/spatial。即把下载的文件解压到安装目录的plugins目录下$NEO4J_HOME/plugins。

接下来，我们使用Java代码在客户端插入数据到neo4j数据库。 我使用Maven构建工程（需要使用Java8进行maven编译）。pom文件如下：

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>cn.tzy</groupId>
    <artifactId>neo4j</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>neo4j</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>repo2.maven.org</id>
            <name>maven2 repository</name>
            <url>http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>osgeo</id>
            <name>Open Source Geospatial Foundation Repository</name>
            <url>http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>neo4j-contrib-releases</id>
            <url>https://raw.github.com/neo4j-contrib/m2/master/releases</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>neo4j-contrib-snapshots</id>
            <url>https://raw.github.com/neo4j-contrib/m2/master/snapshots</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.neo4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>neo4j</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.neo4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>neo4j-spatial</artifactId>
            <version>0.23-neo4j-3.0.4</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.5.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

导入shapefile文件的代码入下：

package cn.tzy.neo4j;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.neo4j.gis.spatial.ShapefileImporter;
import org.neo4j.graphdb.GraphDatabaseService;
import org.neo4j.graphdb.Transaction;
import org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseFactory;

public class Neo4jEx {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        File storeDir = new File("C:/Users/theone/Desktop/spatial.db");
        GraphDatabaseService database = new GraphDatabaseFactory().newEmbeddedDatabase(storeDir);

        try (Transaction tx = database.beginTx()) {
            ShapefileImporter importer = new ShapefileImporter(database);
            importer.importFile("F:/2016/Data/World/continent.shp", "continent");

            tx.success();
        } finally {
            database.shutdown();
        }
    }
}