>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> There's another answer of using the reasoner by building
Robert> your ontology to take advantage of its capabilities. the
Robert> conceptual lego approach relies on the reasoner.
Incidentally, Robert's point reminded me of another thing you can do
without a reasoner.
You can use your reasoner to build your ontology, and then deploy it
without. One of the main reasons that people don't like DL reasoners s
the overhead that they add to architectures. I think that this is a
reasonable point but, in general, only at deployment time. When
building your ontology, it's not that much hassle to have a
reasoner -- my experience suggests it saves your more time than it
costs you.
Phil
