Re: new client

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I haven't been working on it for quite a long time now, but I simple
servlet/bookmarklet based annotea client is included in WYMIWYG-mies.
The application is based on jena 1 and j2se 1.3.1. See
http://wymiwyg.org/mies.

cheers, reto

Brant Langer Gurganus wrote:
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| Dan Brickley wrote:
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|> * Brant Langer Gurganus <gurganbl@rose-hulman.edu> [2003-10-22
|> 10:45-0500]
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|>> Me and a group of students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology are
|>> planning to tackle an Annotea client to be written in Java using
|>> J2ME.  If anybody has any suggestions, we would appreciate them.
|>>
|>
|> One goal I expect we share is finding an RDF parser that runs in a
|> J2ME/MIDP environment. Most Java RDF parsers themselves use a separate
|> XML parser, so I'm currently stuck at the subgoal of finding a SAX2 Java
|> parser that works in MIDP. My best bet re RDF parser is the Rio parser
|> shipping with Sesame, although Jena's ARP may be a possibility too.
|>
|>
| Yes, finding an RDF parser is good.  So far Jena is the one I've found.
| I'll look at Sesame.  Outside of Mozilla Help, I don't have development
| experience with RDF and networking and that stuff is already done in
| Mozilla.
|
|> I'm curious why you've chosen J2ME rather than generic Java (J2SE I
|> guess). Do you have mobile, geo-coding etc apps in mind? An interesting
|> research / scoping question is to find out where the utility of
|> Annotea-style Annotations end, and other RDF approaches should be used
|> instead. For example, considering Restaurant reviews, you could use
|> Annotea vocab to annotate the homepage of a restaurant. Or you could
|> use plain RDF/XML to just describe the restaurant itself. See
|> http://esw.w3.org/topic/RestaurantRecommendation for more notes and
|> datasources on this front, if it's an app area that fits your goals.
|> Or http://esw.w3.org/topic/RestaurantsVersusTheirReviews for more
|> notes on modeling styles, 'doc centric' vs 'world centric' (Annotea
|> being largely
|> the former I think).
|>
|>
| The primary reason for trying this in J2ME is that our instructor wants
| that as a "should" level goal.  We can use J2SE, but it has to be pretty
| unique.  That is, not just a networked Tic-tac-toe game.  The reason we
| chose trying to make an Annotea client was that it might be something
| someone might want to do on the go, involved networking (a requirement),
| was not a game (a strong suggestion), hadn't been done before (in our
| brief research), had open source implementations for ideas, and was
| widely interactive.  Additionally, it had a server system already
| created which removes that burden.
|
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