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Java Driver

Basics

• Download the Java Driver
• Tutorial
• API Documentation
• Release Notes

Specific Topics and How-To

• Concurrency
• Saving Objects
• Data Types

Third Party Frameworks and Libs

POJO Mappers

• Morphia - Type-Safe Wrapper with DAO/Datastore abstractions
• Mungbean (w/clojure support)
• Spring MongoDB – Provides Spring users with a familiar data access features including rich POJO mapping.
• DataNucleus JPA/JDO – JPA/JDO wrapper
• lib-mongomapper JavaBean Mapper (No annotations)
• mongo-jackson-mapper Uses jackson (annotations) to map to/from POJOs and has a simple wrapper around DBCollection to simply this.
• Kundera - JPA compliant ORM. Works with multiple datastores.

Code Generation

• Sculptor - mongodb-based DSL -> Java (code generator)
• GuicyData - DSL -> Java generator with Guice integration
  • Blog Entries

Misc

• log4mongo a log4j appender
• mongo-java-logging a Java logging handler
• (Experimental, Type4) JDBC driver
• Metamodel data exploration and querying library

Clojure

• Congo Mongo
• monger

Groovy

• Groovy Tutorial for MongoDB
• MongoDB made more Groovy
• GMongo, a Groovy wrapper to the mongodb Java driver
  • GMongo 0.5 Release Writeup

JavaScript (Rhino)

• MongoDB-Rhino - A toolset to provide full integration between the Rhino JavaScript engine for the JVM and MongoDB. Uses the MongoDB Java driver.

JRuby

• jmongo A thin ruby wrapper around the mongo-java-driver for vastly better jruby performance.

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Scala

• Scala Language Center

Hadoop

• There is a nascent and experimental MongoDB Hadoop integration plugin available, which supports reading data from MongoDB into Hadoop and writing data from Hadoop out to MongoDB.
• Part of the mongo-hadoop distribution includes a MongoDB sink for Flume to allow logging into MongoDB

Presentations

• Building a Mongo DSL in Scala at Hot Potato - Lincoln Hochberg's Presentation from MongoSF (April 2010)
• Java Development - Brendan McAdams' Presentation from MongoNYC (May 2010)
• Java Development - James Williams' Presentation from MongoSF (April 2010)
• Morphia: Easy Java Persistance for MongoDB - Scott Hernandez' presentation at MongoSF (May 2011)
• Spring Source and MongoDB - Chris Richardson's presentation at MongoSV (December 2010)
• Using MongoDB with Scala - Brendan McAdams' Presentation at the New York Scala Enthusiasts (August 2010)
• More Java-related presentations