It would probably make more sense for me to go and tweak schemagen and
submit a patch than to continue with vocab2jena, which I wrote really for
the one purpose of generating the SKOS definitions and is undoubtedly
useless for anything else. But... the code is there for people to look at.
:-)
As far as the code generation goes, as simple as simple can be.
Thanks for the feedback Joshua, I appreciate it.
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Joshua TAYLOR <joshuaaa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Tom Emerson <tremer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The output is very similar: you can see the output of vocab2jena here:
> > https://gist.github.com/TreeRex/6464149
> >
> > The main difference is that I use use the ResourceFactory methods
> instead of
> > creating the static Model. And I don't use the * wildcard on the imports.
> >
> > So... I guess it would have behoved me to look at schemagen before I
> spent a
> > couple of hours writing my utility: it would have saved me the bother. I
> saw
> > the name in the docs and didn't connect it to what I needed. I should
> have
> > figured you guys would have done this already. :-/
>
> Not "you guys", but "those guys"; I'm not a Jena developer. I've
> used a lot of schemagen with Jena though, and I'm always genuinely
> interested in code generation based on ontologies, so I was serious
> when I asked how the two compared.
>
> In my opinion, it's good that you used ResourceFactory, though.
> There's a StackOverflow question [1] about why some of the vocabulary
> classes use a model and some use a ResourceFactory. Ian Dickinson
> answered:
>
> "That both styles are used is just historical accident. I think these
> days, I'd probably suggest using theResourceFactory approach, simply
> because it avoids the (small) overhead of allocating a model, and the
> model gives you no real advantages. At some point, we'll probably go
> back and do some refactoring to just use a single approach in the Jena
> codebase."
>
> In the future, Jena's schemagen might produce results more like what
> your code produces.
>
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/17701316/1281433
>
> --
> Joshua Taylor, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tayloj/
>
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