Ah ha. That explains it. Thanks to all of you who have helped me. (The book's site points to this forum ... and you're right ... it is not this forum's fault.) Trolling and trolling with Google searches at last I've found not just one but two(!) SPARQL query engines that will unpack and run on Windows 7 'Twinkle ARQ' and 'Sesame 2 Windows Client'. That, I hope, will serve my purpose ... and maybe this exchange will help anyone after me who comes looking.
Thanks again, Edwin -----Original Message----- From: Benson Margulies [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 1:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Windows 7 On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Edwin Relf <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not trying to write a java application. I'm trying to learn SPARQL - The > book "Learning SPARQL" by Bob DuCharme points to Jena ARQ to download its > SPARQL query engine. The book indicates it is a simple process to install. ! > Well it isn't. The readers of this mailing list are hardly responsible for the accuracy of a book written by none of us. However, I think I see the explanation. Pre-Apache, Jena ARQ was distributed as a zip file which contained command-line scripts you could use to work with SPARQL. The current ARQ package is just the jar for the classpath, not this other stuff. http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/jena/apache-jena-2.7.0-incubating.zip, the full release, contains this material. Download this, unzip it, and use the files in the 'bat' directory. > > I see how I could use Eclipse to incorporate Jena to write java script > but I don't want to go there > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benson Margulies [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, 9 April 2012 11:54 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Windows 7 > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Edwin Relf <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ok - then what application are they incorporated into ... > > Applications you write yourself. If you are not planning on writing Java > applications that process RDF, you very likely don't want to download Jena. > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Benson Margulies [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, 9 April 2012 9:12 PM >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Windows 7 >> >> You don't install Jena. it is a Java API. You download jar files and >> incorporate them into an application. What else were you expecting? >> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Edwin Relf <[email protected]> wrote: >>> For the life of me I cannot find how to or what file to download Jena ARQ. >>> Nor can I find how to install it. I assume others have had this problem. >>> Can anyone point me to a forum where a solution to this problem is >>> articulated? Thanks Edwin. >> >
