owlsreader.java

开发owl的API,提供了W3C规定标准接口,是目前比较少的API.

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/*
 * Created on Dec 27, 2003
 *
 */
package org.mindswap.owls.io;

import java.net.URI;
import java.util.List;

import org.mindswap.owls.grounding.Grounding;
import org.mindswap.owls.process.Process;
import org.mindswap.owls.profile.Profile;
import org.mindswap.owls.service.Service;

import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource;

/**
 * @author Evren Sirin
 *
 */
public interface OWLSReader {
	/**
	 * Read the OWL-S service description from the given file URI. If the given file contains 
	 * more than one service description on of them is randomly returned. This function should
	 * be used only if the file is known to contain single service description. Otherwise, use
	 * readAll() function. 
	 * 
	 * @param serviceURI
	 * @return
	 */
	public Service read(URI fileURI) throws Exception;

	/**
	 * Read the OWL-S service description from the given file URI. All the service descriptions 
	 * found in the file will be returned in a list. 
	 * 
	 * @param serviceURI
	 * @return
	 */
	public List readAll(URI fileURI) throws Exception;	
	
	public void setListener(OWLSReaderListener listener);
	
	
	public Process createProcess(Service service, Resource processInfo);		
	public Profile createProfile(Service service, Resource profileInfo);
	public Grounding createGrounding(Service service, Resource groundingInfo);		
}