Re: Survey of Java SPARQL endpoint query API

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Mark Diggory <mdiggory@mit.edu> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm trying to get a survey of existing client side tools in Java for
> interacting with SPARQL endpoints.  I realize that at a most basic level all
> one needs to start with is an Http Client like Apache Commons HttpClient or
> the Java HTTPURLConnection.  But, I'm looking more for clients that act more
> like JDBC, allowing for the creation of prepared queries and iteration of
> response results as "records" and possibly "paging" capabilities through
> result-sets.
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> An important aspect I am seeking in such a library is that it be free of
> underlying dependencies on any specific underlying triple-store
> implementation behind that SPARQL endpoint.

Yet your request that it be a client that act more like JDBC will do just that.

The HTTP SPARQL protocol is the only specified protocol for
interacting with RDF stores. The results format is a very simple XML
based format. If you want to be independent of implementation, I'd
recommend that you stick with the basics.

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-protocol/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-XMLres/

-Alan

> Though, one might be used to
> accomplish caching/inference on the existing result-set. Its important that
> be a separate set of functionality from the query capabilities themselves.
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> thanks,
> Mark Diggory
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Received on Sunday, 21 September 2008 20:48:40 UTC