Hi Pantelis,

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:53 PM, chung <chvng at mail.ntua.gr> wrote:

> Hi Nina, Egon, All,
>   I performed some measurements to tell how Jena performs when
> different representations are requested from the remote service. Till
> now we worked exclusively with RDF/XML so we tried the alternatives of
> TURTLE and N3-TRIPLES. The result is that RDF/XML is downloaded and
> parsed faster than TURTLE and N3-TRIPLES (take a look at the attached
> file).


not surprising...


> I'll do the same with JSON as well.
>
> @Nina: I'll try to create a Model (com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model)
> using different methods from the ModelFactory outside ToxOtis and send
> you the results. If there's a benefit from using some other Model
> implementation, we'll rearrange a bit the source code in ToxOtis to
> enhance the performance. What's more, for the time, if one needs to
> serialize an RDF graph has to invoke the method
> "write(java.io.OutputStream):void" but we study AMBIT's implementation
> with StAX and will provide an alternative method.



For the time I'm a bit
> confused but I'll take a look at the documentation first...
>
> Interlude: Manualism
> Manualism (syn. Documentationism) is a technological movement that began
> in Java (the country) by programmers in the early 90s. It's purpose is
> the construction of interfaces and methods, so complex that the ONLY way
> to make something work is to read the Users' Manual. A prime example of
> a manualist masterpiece is Jena. [To my surprise, the term manualism is
> found in wikipedia but with a different meaning:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manualism_%28hand_music%29 ]
>

What about trying   http://www.openrdf.org/   instead :)

Nina