[Nepomuk] Re: java bindings for soprano?

[Darren Cruse]

I didn't say so but I was familiar and I actually was considering that as
well.  Because my java code (which I inherited) is already written using the
Jena api.

I decided I should make that my last choice because Sebastion had indicated
the idea of Soprano with Nepomuk was to always go through it and not talk to
Virtuoso directly.  He said there's certain things it does - validations or
things I guess - that would be bypassed otherwise.

And I guess obviously the idea of Soprano is that it allows Nepomuk the
freedom to work with different stores right (where I understand it's already
gone through Sesame and Redland on the way to Virtuoso!  I'd love to hear
more about why! :).

But I appreciate your comment and like I say I am considering that as a
backup plan if there's no easier binding for Soprano from java.  And I don't
really hate the "just write it out to a file and import" approach either.
It's kind of neat that's so loosely coupled to anything and everything.

Truthfully my other reasoning is the thought that in the long run my hope is
to *possibly* get to the point of contributing code back to Nepomuk, and
that's where I feel like I should keep with the program as best I can (e.g.
of C++, though it looks like Python has some real usage in KDE as well?).

And in that respect maybe it's no problem doing what you said since really
what I'm talking about using java in this case is pretty proprietary...
there's no real open source opportunity for what I'm talking about at the
moment.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 14:38, Darren Cruse <darren.cruse at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think I know the answer is no, but I just wanted to make doubly sure
> since
> > I've never asked specifically:
> > Are there definitely no bindings to insert triples or do sparql queries
> > through soprano from java?
> > i.e. As I see there are for ruby and python ?
> >
> > (I do know and understand that an effort was made to remove dependencies
> > from nepomuk on java, it just so happens I've written some code using the
> > Drools java based rules engine that I need to interface through soprano,
> > unless it's too hard I may just write out RDF/XML and load it manually I
> > guess)
>
> Why not use a Java interface for virtuoso instead? Like google just
> returned:
> http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VirtJenaProvider
>
> Ian
>
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