Nearly all the example code on the web for Jena is restatement of Javadoc. This is better than nothing, but what seems to be missing is examples of how Jena is used in real-world applications. I believe publishing practical examples would dramatically increase the use of Jena and semantic processing in general.
Without a pool of practical examples people using Jena are working in isolation. There are so many ways of achieving results, but which are the ways people are actually using in real applications? For example, when using data from a SPARQL endpoint, what is the accepted way to retrieve it, store it locally and make it available through user interface controls? As far as I can tell there are no examples of how to do this anywhere. ie How would you go about populating a dropdown list in a UI with data from a SPARQL endpoint? Am I missing something (I hope so!) If not, does anyone want to contribute some examples of using Jena in real-world applications? If it turns out there are no such examples out there and no-one wants to contribute examples, I will write some myself. But they will be awful! I’d much rather people with experience provided this much needed information. I’m happy to collate and publish. DM
