i’ve been humming and harring about the core model. to be really capable there is a need to avoid

1. over-dependence on Jena and
2. over-engineering the API.

i’d like the core to be abstracted from Jena so that as if an alternative model comes along, or if/when Jena release version 2, there shouldn’t be any major problem switching the current code out, or augmenting it.

since RDF has an XML serialisation mechanism, that is the obvious choice for the API – it relies not on objects but on a stream of data, whose structure and syntax are all pre-defined and controlled.

So, that may be a suitable API – by using XML to serialise and reconstitute objects, different models may be used – this would mean the concern I raised earlier about plug-ins for non-java languages can be laid to rest.