Re: Lightweight Java RDF libraries

2011-09-12 Thread Norman Gray
Jean-Marc, and Armando, hello. On 2011 Sep 12, at 13:49, Jean-Marc Vanel wrote: > That's a good question that I asked myself when I started EulerGUI. > And I couldn't also find a right answer. > Then the project, geared towards GUI and rules, proceeded, and I > forgot the question. We used Jena

Re: Lightweight Java RDF libraries

2011-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Vanel
Well, I was too optimistic about the jar dependencies. There are 2 more jar necessary to run the code sample : 136987 oscache-2.4.1.jar 44598 commons-logging-api-1.1.jar OSCache is used to cache the parsed RDF/N3; this is useful in the context of a GUI , and it should be made facultative. Th

Re: Lightweight Java RDF libraries

2011-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Vanel
That's a good question that I asked myself when I started EulerGUI. And I couldn't also find a right answer. Then the project, geared towards GUI and rules, proceeded, and I forgot the question. We used Jena for parsing RDF/XML, OWL-API for OWL/XML. And for N3 including quoted graphs and rules, we

RE: Lightweight Java RDF libraries

2011-09-12 Thread Armando Stellato
Dear Norman, I don't think Sesame and Jena are all that complicate: maybe that, to accomplish with your requirement for a rdfdummy-compliant library, they may need a documentation avoiding all the more complicate aspects. But building such a documentation, tailored upon all your needs, would reall

Lightweight Java RDF libraries

2011-09-12 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. Can anyone point me towards a simple/lightweight Java RDF library? Here, I mean 'lightweight' in the sense of having a small API, rather than a small jar, because if one is trying to persuade people that RDF is a useful and practical thing, then hauling out a manual which could crus