@Service
public class DatabasePopulator {

    @Autowired GraphDatabaseContext ctx;
    @Autowired CineastsRepository repository;

    @Transactional
    public List<Movie> populateDatabase() {
        Actor tomHanks = new Actor("1", "Tom Hanks").persist();
        Movie forestGump = new Movie("1", "Forrest Gump").persist();
        tomHanks.playedIn(forestGump,"Forrest");
        return asList(forestGump);
    }
}

@Controller
public class MovieController {

    private DatabasePopulator populator;

    @Autowired
    public MovieController(DatabasePopulator populator) {
        this.populator = populator;
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "/populate", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String populateDatabase(Model model) {
        Collection<Movie> movies = populator.populateDatabase();
        model.addAttribute("movies",movies);
        return "/movies/list";
    }
}

<%@ page session="false" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="s" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

<c:choose>
  <c:when test="${not empty movie}">
    <h2>${movie.title}</h2>
    <c:if test="${not empty movie.roles}">
    <ul>
    <c:forEach items="${movie.roles}" var="role">
      <li>
        <a href="/actors/${role.actor.id}"><c:out value="${role.actor.name}" /> as <c:out value="${role.name}" /></a><br/>
      </li>
    </c:forEach>
    </ul>
    </c:if>
  </c:when>
  <c:otherwise>
      No Movie with id ${id} found!
  </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>