For all of you Java developers out there, Clark&Parsia has released an initial integration between Stardog and Spring. The Stardog website states, “Spring is a platform to build and run enterprise applications in Java. Stardog’s Spring support makes life easier for enterprise developers who need to work with Semantic Web technology—including RDF, SPARQL, and OWL—by way of Stardog. The Spring for Stardog source code is available on Github. A more feature-full version of will be available in Stardog Enterprise Edition.”

It continues, “Spring for Stardog 0.0.2 provides a set of capabilities for rapidly building Stardog-backed applications with the Spring Framework. As with many other parts of Spring, Stardog’s Spring integration uses the template design pattern for abstracting standard boilerplate away from application developers. At the lowest level, Spring for Stardog includes (1) DataSouce and DataSourceFactoryBean for managing Stardog connections. (2) SnarlTemplate for transaction- and connection-pool safe Stardog programming. (3) DataImporter for easy bootstrapping of input data into Stardog. Future releases of Spring for Stardog will address other common enterprise capabilities: Spring Batch, Spring Data, etc.”

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