Brian McBride has announced the latest release of Jena, which incorporates a query
language (RDQL) and support for DAML ontologies.
The Jena API for manipulating RDF is at the heart of the growing support
for Semantic Web technologies at HP Labs. As well as the above-mentioned
improvements, Jena 1.2 includes a new RDF parser compliant with the latest
decisions of the RDF Core working group, a persistent storage module based on
Berkeley DB, and support for other storage implementations.
McBride writes concerning this release:
The current release, 1.2.0, is a preview release. We hope it as stable and
functional as jena always has been and should be backward compatible with
previous releases. In the next release we would like to make various changes,
such as cleaning up some features of the API and shortening the package
names, which will require changes to existing code.
He adds that comments are welcome to the Jena-dev mailing list.
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