Using a Java Client with MongoDB

MongoDB server provides drivers for several languages including Java. The MongoDB Java driver may be used to connect to MongoDB server from a Java application and create a collection, get a collection or a list of collections, add a document or multiple documents to a collection, and find a document or a set of documents. In this chapter we shall create a Java application in Eclipse and access MongoDB server to add a document and subsequently get data from MongoDB server and also update and delete data in MongoDB server. This chapter covers the following topics: