Draft for Fuseki2 announcement

[Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>]

Draft for wider than "there's a release" messages.


To:
   semantic-web@w3.org
   public-lod@w3.org

without the "apologies for cross-posting :-|

	Andy

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Apache Jena is framework for building linked data and semantic web 
applications.

The release of Jena 2.13.0 includes a major revision of the Apache Jena 
SPARQL server.  Fuseki2 includes server security and an all new server 
admin UI.  It is available both as a standalone server, and packaged as 
a WAR file.

    http://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/

The security is provided by Apache Shiro.  This can be configured to 
meet specific deployment needs.

The new UI provides administration of a running server, including 
managing datasets. At the moment, it provides the abilities to create 
datasets, upload data, query the data and to backup the database on a 
live server.

This interface is new and we are seeking contribution and feedback to 
help shape it's evolution.

This incorporates component and contributions from YASR
http://yasgui.org/ (with thanks to Laurens Rietveld)

Fuseki v1 continues to be available.  To ease transition, the Fuseki v2 
standalone server can be run in the same way as Fuseki1 for existing 
configurations. The Fuseki1 and Fuseki2 UIs are not compatible.

== Obtaining Fuseki 2

= As binary downloads

Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of 
libraries. Apache Jena Fuseki (versions 1 and 2) are available as binary 
distribution (as well as in maven). For details of a global mirror copy 
of all Jena binaries please see:

http://jena.apache.org/download/index.cgi

= Source code for the release

The signed source code of this release is available at:

http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/source/

and the signed master source for all Apache Jena releases is available 
at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/

     The Apache Jena developer community

Re: Draft for Fuseki2 announcement

[Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org>]

Looks good.

Perhaps add something about SPARQL REST server capabilities - for
those who have not heard about Fuseki before.


I would do a slightly larger blurb (massaged from
https://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/ )


Apache Jena Fuseki is a SPARQL server. It can run as a operating
system service, as a Java web application (WAR file), and as a
standalone server. It provides security (using Apache Shiro) and has a
user interface for server monitoring and administration. Fuseki
implements the SPARQL 1.1 REST protocols for query and update as well
as the SPARQL Graph Store protocol.

Fuseki is tightly integrated with Apache Jena's TDB to provide a
robust, transactional persistent storage layer, and incorporates Jena
text query and Jena spatial query. It can be used to provide the
protocol engine for other RDF query and storage systems.





The download link should probably go to
http://jena.apache.org/download/#apache-jena-fuseki so they won't
download the wrong thing  (and I don't see the need to leak
"index.cgi" :) )


We are not meant to deep-link to
http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/source/ for anything but the *.asc
files - as this bypasses the mirrors.

Perhaps download/index.cgi should have "Source code" as a separate
header as the source covers both Jena and Fuseki?

On 16 March 2015 at 16:35, Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org> wrote:
> Draft for wider than "there's a release" messages.
>
>
> To:
>   semantic-web@w3.org
>   public-lod@w3.org
>
> without the "apologies for cross-posting :-|
>
>         Andy
>
> ------------------------------------
> Apache Jena is framework for building linked data and semantic web
> applications.
>
> The release of Jena 2.13.0 includes a major revision of the Apache Jena
> SPARQL server.  Fuseki2 includes server security and an all new server admin
> UI.  It is available both as a standalone server, and packaged as a WAR
> file.
>
>    http://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/
>
> The security is provided by Apache Shiro.  This can be configured to meet
> specific deployment needs.
>
> The new UI provides administration of a running server, including managing
> datasets. At the moment, it provides the abilities to create datasets,
> upload data, query the data and to backup the database on a live server.
>
> This interface is new and we are seeking contribution and feedback to help
> shape it's evolution.
>
> This incorporates component and contributions from YASR
> http://yasgui.org/ (with thanks to Laurens Rietveld)
>
> Fuseki v1 continues to be available.  To ease transition, the Fuseki v2
> standalone server can be run in the same way as Fuseki1 for existing
> configurations. The Fuseki1 and Fuseki2 UIs are not compatible.
>
> == Obtaining Fuseki 2
>
> = As binary downloads
>
> Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of libraries.
> Apache Jena Fuseki (versions 1 and 2) are available as binary distribution
> (as well as in maven). For details of a global mirror copy of all Jena
> binaries please see:
>
> http://jena.apache.org/download/index.cgi
>
> = Source code for the release
>
> The signed source code of this release is available at:
>
> http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/source/
>
> and the signed master source for all Apache Jena releases is available at:
> http://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/
>
>     The Apache Jena developer community



-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes
Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons RDF (incubating)
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718