Photo credit After working on a new online Spring Data Neo4j course, I learned a couple more things about updating an entity. The course required a different set of scenarios than outlined in my previous SDN update blog post, so I wanted to cover those scenarios, as well. Spring save() method First up is the out-of-the-box save() method that is provided by Spring as a default. This method takes an input of the entity object you want to save to the database.