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It indicates its primarily Stian, a bit of Sergio. Andy has helped a bit, but I do believe Peter has stepped away from the project based on the mail archives. John On 2016-11-17 12:11 (-0500), Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am more concerned about the size of the community here. Is Paul still > involved in the code, still wants to be involved, or do we have an SME pool > size of 1? > > Gary > > On Nov 16, 2016 11:09 PM, "Benedikt Ritter" <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I think we can move RDF to Commons regardless of the maturity of the API. > > We have other proper components which never had a release. RDF already had > > three. > > > > Benedikt > > > > Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> schrieb am Mi. 16. Nov. 2016 um > > 23:52: > > > > > Another is that ServiceLoader don't work well under OSGi without careful > > > hand holding, so it may be best to leave that to the consumer code rather > > > than say have a static method in the API with a fixed ServiceLoader. > > > > > > (I always have trouble with the ServiceLoader instances built in to Java, > > > which become very sensitive to which thread initates first) > > > > > > It might be worth adding the OSGi service @annotations (or corresponding > > > XML files) so RDF implementations can be used as OSGI services; all > > Commons > > > RDF modules should already be bundles. > > > > > > OSGi is probably a good fit with Commons RDF as a library can export only > > > use of interfaces org.apache.commons.rdf.api, but depend on say RDF4J > > > internally or get any RDF implementation injected as an OSGi service; > > which > > > would not be visible to clients of said library. > > > > > > And as the Commons RDF API is interoperable, another part of the > > > application may use Jena (without knowing it) and pass say a Graph to > > said > > > library without any problems. > > > > > > BTW, anchor link didn't work because GitHub and Maven have different > > > Markdown flavours, link is instead: > > > > > > > > > https://commonsrdf.incubator.apache.org/userguide.html# > > Finding_an_RDF_implementation > > > > > > As noted in there, care must be taken with reuse of an RDF instance and > > > labeled blank nodes: there is no RDFFactoryFactory. > > > rdf.getClass().newInstance() should work for anything from a > > ServiceLoader > > > (but not an OSGi Service which uses proxy classes). > > > > > > On 16 Nov 2016 10:02 pm, "Peter Ansell" <ansell.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Gary, > > > > > > > > There is support for java.util.ServiceLoader with the relevant > > > > META-INF/services files and default constructors, detailed in the > > > > userguide.md file currently, but could also be in README.md: > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/blob/ > > > > master/src/site/markdown/userguide.md#Finding_an_RDF_implementation > > > > > > > > However, users may be aware of which implementation they prefer and > > > > use it specifically, to match up with their database drivers or other > > > > libraries so the direct constructor patterns will be used regularly > > > > also. > > > > > > > > The main reason for that would be that if you use the ServiceLoader > > > > approach (just using the RDF interface) you don't have object level > > > > access to the mutators to create native Jena/RDF4J/etc. objects out of > > > > the Commons RDF objects. There should still be static methods for > > > > those cases, but they are less simple to use than the mutators in > > > > general. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > On 17 November 2016 at 02:49, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > In the read me I see a link to an example that has > > > > > > > > > > public RDF createFactory() { > > > > > return new SimpleRDF(); > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > Is/should a service loader be used to allow pluging in/discovering > > > > > implementations? > > > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 16, 2016 5:22 AM, "Stian Soiland-Reyes" <st...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Commons RDF (incubating) has been in the Apache Incubator since 2015, > > > > > with an aim to graduate into the Apache Commons PMC. I think now > > the > > > > > time has come to propose such a move. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This route was agreed with the Commons PMC at the time, and we have > > > > > had good guidance from our mentors, including Commons PMC folks Gary > > > > > Gregory, Benedikt Ritter and lately myself :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As noted in the 0.3.0 release today, Commons RDF aims to provide a > > > > > common Java API for RDF 1.1 graphs and datasets. Commons RDF 0.3.0 > > > > > adds API bindings for Apache Jena, Eclipse RDF4J, JSON-LD Java as > > well > > > > > as a standalone implementation. > > > > > > > > > > http://commonsrdf.incubator.apache.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now I think Commons RDF is stabilized and is ready to graduate to be > > a > > > > > component under Commons PMC where we can do a 1.0.0 release to mark > > > > > the spot. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (Concurrent thread on dev@commonsrdf: > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/760b2d58e344e51550dcc9f6452395 > > > > > efe72e97d3dc06169ef72f09c6@%3Cdev.commonsrdf.apache.org%3E > > > > > ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I must admit that community-wise Commons RDF is not as strong as when > > > > > the podling started - forming a uniform API across multiple > > > > > implementations and use cases did mean many hard technical and > > > > > semantic discussions which caused some people to withdraw for a > > while. > > > > > Several has since returned as indirect contributors (e.g. code > > > > > review). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now that the Commons RDF API has settled, and given that Commons has > > a > > > > > "any ASF committer have write access" policy and an open development > > > > > mode, I would like to propose here (and at dev@commonsrdf) that the > > > > > component graduate to be owned by Apache Commons PMC. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Views..? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here's a project maturity report > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/blob/ > > master/MATURITY.md > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to crunch some code ? Have a look at > > > > > > > > > > https://commonsrdf.incubator.apache.org/download > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-commonsrdf/ > > > > > https://commonsrdf.incubator.apache.org/apidocs/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Stian Soiland-Reyes > > > > > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
