James, Constructors are usually only evaluated once, to set initial default values to some properties of the instances. They are triggered by a creation of a new resource. One example is when you create a new resource in TBC, its label is automatically generated from the qname.
Rules can be executed at any point by running TopSPIN inference engine. They are usually evaluated multiple times (although you can set a Œsingle pass¹ only) - as rules create new triples, additional evaluations can then result in more triples and so on. Irene Polikoff From: <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Friday, January 29, 2016 at 1:08 PM To: TopBraid Suite Users <[email protected]> Subject: [topbraid-users] what is the difference between and update rule and an update constructor? both rules and constructors can associate an update query with a class. in both cases the intended consequence is to assert (or delete) statements as a consequence of a given type assertion. the constructor description indicates that the rules should execute first. beyond that - and their declaration forms, how do the two differ ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), Reference Data Manager (RDM), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), Reference Data Manager (RDM), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
