# How to connect spark

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-connect-spark/37164>\
**Category:** Neo4j Graph Platform\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-connect-spark/37164 "2021-04-21T03:35:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-connect-spark/37164/1 "2021-04-21T03:35:47Z")

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when i tried to connect neo4j by spark,with dependency as spark 2.3.1 and scala 2.11.8 and neo4j-connector-apache-spark\_2.11 4.0.0,i failed with this error  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.neo4j.spark.reader.Neo4jDataSourceReader.createDataReaderFactories()Ljava/util/List  
how could i resolve this problem?