New Features¶

List of all planned features. Add details where appropriate.

• Logic Engine. Based on RLog interpreter and Krule.
• Modeling API. Fix and expand Sofa, and look at other APIs like ActiveRDF and our own API.
• Intrinsic Database extensions for Modeling (inferencing).
• SPARQL Query Engine.
• SPARQL Transport (also mentioned in Refactoring).
• API for Content Management System. See JSR-170. Consider integration of Jackrabbit.
• Security Module. Based on JAAS. Use existing security hooks.
• Distributed Queries. This can be done in 2 phases:
  • Simple passing on of queries.
  • Intelligent movement of subqueries to minimize bandwidth.
• Resolvers:
  • File storage.
  • Apple Spotlight. Requires jCarbonMetadata.
  • Google Desktop (Is this possible?)
• Client Code:
  • Java AST -> RDF mapping.
  • RDF -> Java AST mapping.
  • OWL to Java AST translator. Especially consider OWL-S. Integrate this with the above modules.
• New indexes for scalability.