Hi Edwin If you are looking for Windows based tooling for RDF/SPARQL you may also want to look at [1] which is another open source project I've worked on besides Jena
Hope this helps, Rob [1]: http://www.dotnetrdf.org/content.asp?pageID=Tools On Apr 9, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Edwin Relf wrote: > 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. >>> >> >
