JSR-170 (JSR-283) as an in the application server interface

I was recently listening to Jon Udell’s podcast conversation with Roy Fielding about HTTP, REST, WebDAV, JSR 170 and Waka. Lots of interesting tidbits in there but one in particular that I wanted to post on is with respect to JSR-170 and JSR-283; I’ve not heard these charactizations put quite as clearly before. Roy, being […]

The punch line for ontologies

I’m just getting to the point where I understand enough about ontologies to see the challenges that lie ahead for me as an evangalist for them. So when I receive a gift such as this, an absolutely compelling and easy to understand example of the value of ontologies, it makes me speak out loud in […]

Ontologies, OWL, Protege

I spent the first week of the new year (it was a very quite week) playing with ontologies. Major cudos to the group at Stanford that is responsible for Protege. Protege is an ontology editor, opensource and free. I’ve installed and played with the tool and it is quite decent, but the Protege-OWL tutorial that […]