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Jena Week: Migrating the first example

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. (Note: all examples are compiled and run on a Windows 2000 box, MySql 4.x, Java 1.4.1_01) I downloaded and unzipped the Jena2 from the SourceForge project and first thing I noticed is that there is a lot of material with this download. With the classes for the ontology support as well as […]

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RDF

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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RDF

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, […]

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Big Water

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Pretty tired today, and no, it has nothing to do with the peace party that happened in the comments to the last post. The participants worked things out for themselves, which is as it should be. I’m not sure what Happy Tutor is doing and where he’s taking it, but he’s a […]

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Writing

I am Alice or writing through the looking glass

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes enough disparate elements come together and you have to write about it because to do otherwise would be to toss fate’s good idea down the drain. So I find myself writing about writing and weblogging and self-censorship, when I think I should be writing about a girl and a […]