Building a Java application

In this section, we will build a Java application to interact with our Apache Cassandra cluster. We will start with some simple examples, and build our way up to something more complex.

Finally, we will cover writing a job to load data, and discuss adjustments to allow it to work at a large scale.

Driver dependency configuration with Apache Maven

Inside our integrated developer environment (IDE), we will create a new Maven Java project. I'll specify the package as PacktCassDev. Then, we'll need to make sure that our pom.xml file is configured with the desired version of the DataStax Java driver:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra&lt...