Newbie Questions about Marmotta

[Sam Chance <sg...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I recently discovered Marmotta, and wanted to ask a couple of questions.

I haven't completely read the Marmotta site, but I am curious to know if
there is a matrix or page that compares/contrasts Marmotta, Clerezza,
Stanbol, Jena, and maybe Sesame.

Also, given the increasing prevalence of OSGi within the enterprise, I'm
wondering if Marmotta finally decided to use OSGi, or not. I skimmed
through a couple of emails discussing it, but these seemed to be
contentious. :-)

Thank you!
Sam

Re: Newbie Questions about Marmotta

[Sergio Fernández <se...@salzburgresearch.at>]

Hi Sam,

On 08/12/13 19:57, Sam Chance wrote:
> I haven't completely read the Marmotta site, but I am curious to know if
> there is a matrix or page that compares/contrasts Marmotta, Clerezza,
> Stanbol, Jena, and maybe Sesame.

I'd love to have such matrix, but from my knowledge nobody has done it 
so far.

Even though, FMPOV the comparison would need to do it in different groups:

* First you have RDF toolkits, such as Jena or Sesame in Java.

* Then you could have Linked Data platforms/server, where we could 
include Marmotta, Clerezza, Fuseki, Callimachus or others. All have 
different goals and technological approaches for fulfilling such goals.

* And then you could have tools, such as Stanbol, with other purposes 
that are build on top of one of the previous ones.

> Also, given the increasing prevalence of OSGi within the enterprise, I'm
> wondering if Marmotta finally decided to use OSGi, or not. I skimmed
> through a couple of emails discussing it, but these seemed to be
> contentious. :-)

Well, we had such discussion about one year ago, but taking into account 
many factors we decided to continue with JavaEE. Personally I'm one of 
those who think OSGi would bring very little benefits to Marmotta in 
comparison with the current JEE+CDI, but too many problems not always 
easy to justify.

Cheers,

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Sergio Fernández
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