Apache Jena
Apache Jena is an open source Semantic Web framework for Java. It provides an API to extract data from and write to RDF graphs. The graphs are represented as an abstract "model". A model can be sourced with data from files, databases, URLs or a combination of these. A model can also be queried through SPARQL 1.1.
Jena is similar to RDF4J ; though, unlike RDF4J, Jena provides support for OWL. The framework has various internal reasoners and the Pellet reasoner can be set up to work in Jena.
Jena supports serialisation of RDF graphs to:
Versions
After Apache integration
Jena was integrated as a project under the umbrella of The Apache Software Foundation in April 2012, after having been in the Apache Incubator since November 2010.| Release name | Date |
| Apache Jena 4.5.0 | 2022-05-01 |
| Apache Jena 4.4.0 | 2022-01-13 |
| Apache Jena 4.3.2 | 2021-12-17 |
| Apache Jena 4.3.1 | 2021-12-10 |
| Apache Jena 4.3.0 | 2021-12-05 |
| Apache Jena 4.2.0 | 2021-09-12 |
| Apache Jena 4.1.0 | 2021-05-31 |
| Apache Jena 4.0.0 | 2021-03-27 |
| Apache Jena 3.17.0 | 2020-11-25 |
| Apache Jena 3.16.0 | 2020-07-09 |
| Apache Jena 3.15.0 | 2020-05-15 |
| Apache Jena 3.14.0 | 2020-01-16 |
| Apache Jena 3.13.1 | 2019-10-06 |
| Apache Jena 3.13.0 | 2019-09-25 |
| Apache Jena 3.12.0 | 2019-05-27 |
| Apache Jena 3.11.0 | 2019-04-24 |
| Apache Jena 3.10.0 | 2018-12-30 |
| Apache Jena 3.9.0 | 2018-10-08 |
| Apache Jena 3.8.0 | 2018-07-02 |
| Apache Jena 3.7.0 | 2018-02-14 |
| Apache Jena 3.6.0 | 2017-12-17 |
| Apache Jena 3.5.0 | 2017-11-02 |
| Apache Jena 3.4.0 | 2017-07-21 |
| Apache Jena 3.3.0 | 2017-05-21 |
| Apache Jena 3.2.0 | 2017-02-10 |
| Apache Jena 3.1.0 | 2016-05-14 |
| Apache Jena 3.0.0 | 2015-07-29 |
| Apache Jena 2.13.0 | 2015-03-13 |
| Apache Jena 2.12.0 | 2014-08-07 |
| Apache Jena 2.11.0 | 2013-09-18 |
| Apache Jena 2.10.0 | 2013-02-25 |
| Apache Jena 2.7.0 | 2011-12-23 |
Before Apache integration
Jena was created by HP Labs and was on SourceForge since 2001, and was donated to The Apache Software Foundation in November 2010.| Release name | Date |
| Jena 2.6.0 | 2009-05-18 |
| Jena 2.1 | 2004-02-10 |
| Jena 2.0 | 2003-08-28 |
| Jena 1.1.0 | 2001-07-06 |
| Jena 1.0 | 2000-08-28 |