> Do you have some solid > experience with Java? Do you feel comfortable with Maven, the build system > that Jena uses? Have you worked > your way through the Jena tutorials and do > you feel > comfortable with Jena's basic APIs, those in jena-core and at least some of > jena-arq?
Mostly "No" to all these questions, I don't come from Java even though I've used it a few times in the past.