edu.stanford.smi.protegex.owl
Class ProtegeOWL

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.smi.protegex.owl.ProtegeOWL

public class ProtegeOWL

extends Object

A singleton that provides several generic services such as creating new OWLModels.

Author:

Holger Knublauch

Field Summary

static String

PLUGIN_FOLDER The name of the OWL Plugin folder (subfolder of the plugins directory)

Constructor Summary

ProtegeOWL()

Method Summary

static JenaOWLModel	createJenaOWLModel() Creates a new, empty JenaOWLModel.
static JenaOWLModel	createJenaOWLModelFromInputStream(InputStream is)
static JenaOWLModel	createJenaOWLModelFromReader(Reader reader)
static JenaOWLModel	createJenaOWLModelFromURI(String uri)
static File	getPluginFolder() Gets the plugin folder, which is the subfolder plugins/edu.stanford.smi.protegex.owl of the application's starting directory.
static void	initProject(edu.stanford.smi.protege.model.Project project, String owlFilePath, String language) Initializes a Project so that it points to an existing OWL file.
static void	main(String[] args) Starts the Protege UI, optionally with a given Project file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

PLUGIN_FOLDER

public static String PLUGIN_FOLDER

The name of the OWL Plugin folder (subfolder of the plugins directory)

Constructor Detail

ProtegeOWL

public ProtegeOWL()

Method Detail

createJenaOWLModel

public static JenaOWLModel createJenaOWLModel()

Creates a new, empty JenaOWLModel.

Returns:

a new OWLModel

createJenaOWLModelFromInputStream

public static JenaOWLModel createJenaOWLModelFromInputStream(InputStream is)
                                                      throws Exception

Throws:

Exception

createJenaOWLModelFromReader

public static JenaOWLModel createJenaOWLModelFromReader(Reader reader)
                                                 throws Exception

Throws:

Exception

createJenaOWLModelFromURI

public static JenaOWLModel createJenaOWLModelFromURI(String uri)
                                              throws Exception

Throws:

Exception

getPluginFolder

public static File getPluginFolder()

Gets the plugin folder, which is the subfolder plugins/edu.stanford.smi.protegex.owl of the application's starting directory.

Returns:

the plugin folder

initProject

public static void initProject(edu.stanford.smi.protege.model.Project project,
                               String owlFilePath,
                               String language)

Initializes a Project so that it points to an existing OWL file. This is typically used in conjunction with the createJenaOWLModel() methods to create and save a new project. The resulting project can then be loaded into a Protege UI using the main method.

Parameters:

project -

owlFilePath -

language -

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Starts the Protege UI, optionally with a given Project file.

Parameters:

args - the first String may be the name of a .pprj file