Jena documentation overview

This section contains detailed information about the various Jena sub-systems, aimed at developers using Jena. For more general introductions, please refer to the Getting started and Tutorial sections.

Documentation index

• The RDF API - the core RDF API in Jena
• SPARQL - querying and updating RDF models using the SPARQL standards
• Fuseki - SPARQL server which can present RDF data and answer SPARQL queries over HTTP
• Assembler - describing recipes for constructing Jena models declaratively using RDF
• Inference - using the Jena rules engine and other inference algorithms to derive consequences from RDF models
• Javadoc - JavaDoc generated from the Jena source
• Text Search - enhanced indexes using Lucene or Solr for more efficient searching of text literals in Jena models and datasets.
• I/O - notes on input and output of triples to and from Jena models
• How-To's - various topic-specific how-to documents
• Ontology - support for handling OWL models in Jena
• TDB - a fast persistent triple store that stores directly to disk
• SQL DB - constructing persistent Jena models using SQL databases as the storage layer
• Tools - various command-line tools and utilities to help developers manage RDF data and other aspects of Jena