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Jena Week: Lovely, lovely factories

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. While factories in the real world tend to be messy, ugly things polluting the environment, within Java, they’re wonderful creations that hide much of the implementation detail of Java interfaces. This is particularly obvious when we take a look at porting the third example from Chapter 8 in Practical RDF […]

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Jena Week: Containers and namespaces

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The RDF/XML syntax differs a great deal from vanilla XML, not the least of which is there is no assumptions associated with the order of elements, and XML lacks many of the precision refinements built directly into RDF/XML. For instance, in XML you can have several children of an element, […]