Sesame 3.0 Preview: An Open Source Framework for RDF Data

fter downloading Sesame 3.0-alpha1, the first thing you might notice is that Sesame 3.0 is packaged slightly differently than in 2.x. The awkwardly named sesame-onejar.jar was replaced by sesame-client.jar and sesame-runtime.jar, the openrdf-workbench.war file is gone, and there is a new server script.

The sesame-client.jar contains the RDF parsers and writers distributed with Sesame along with the repository API, HTTP client, and manager. This is the only jar you need for most RDF programs that don't embed an RDF store. If your application embeds its own RDF store, you can use the sesame-runtime.jar instead. This jar contains the familiar MemoryStore, NativeStore, RdbmsStore, and more. As with 2.x, Sesame Server and Console are not present in either of these jars, but you can find them in the lib directory of the SKD, along with scripts to run them.