Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache Clerezza into the incubator

[Craig L Russell]

+1

Sounds like a very interesting project.

Craig

On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür wrote:

Please vote on accepting Apache Clerezza for incubation at the Apache

as a wiki page at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ClerezzaProposal

Incubator. The full proposal is available at the end of this message and <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AceProposal>. We ask the Incubator PMC to sponsor it, with Bertrand as the Champion, and Gianugo, Niclas, Ross,

Karl and Reinhard volunteering to be Mentors.

Please cast your votes:

[ ] +1, bring Clerezza into Incubator
[ ] +0, I don't care either way,
[ ] -1, do not bring Clerezza into Incubator, because...


PMC are binding.

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Abstract

Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and set of components
(bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.

Proposal


requirement for building semantic applications, or used as individual

or the Eclipse platform.

Clerezza provides:

   * An API modeling the W3C RDF standard without any vendor specific
additions.
   * Adapter for various triple stores including Sesame, Jena TDB, and
Mulgara.
   * Front-End adaptors, currently to run applications written against
the Jena API. Support for RDF2Go is planned.
   * A JAX-RS implementation designed to work in an OSGi environment
and allowing to provide Root-Resources as OSGi services.
   * Web access to RDF graphs, including a SPARQL-Endpoint.
   * Extensions to JAX-RS allowing to bind Root-Resource classes to
specific RDF-Types rather than to URI-Paths.

returned by JAX-RS resource methods to various formats
   *

     Support for Scala for writing modules, ScalaServerPages to easily
write renderlets, DSL for accessing graphs.
   * Authentication and authorization based on JAAS and OSGi
Conditional Permission Admin
   * Support for user bundles: Users can have a permission to upload

register their JAX-RS resources can be limited with a prefix.
   * Scripting: Scripting based on javax.script (currently support for
JRuby and Scala)
   * Documentation: Bundles can provide their documentation in RDF.
These are used for online documentation as well as for building Maven
sites (with a Maven reporting plugin)


Clerezza. It allows applications to be written regardless the used
backend. In its purpose, it is similar to RDF2Go, but provides a
significantly more modular interface allowing e.g. to independently
switch the storage, querying, or serialization layer. Furthermore, it
doesn't introduce concepts alien to the RDF model such as blank node
labels, but is in its core strictly limited to RDF semantics.

The JAX-RS implementation can also be used independently of any other
components. It allows OSGi services to provide a RESTful interface to

default OSGi Web Service as well as on a jetty instance listening on a
different port.

Background


and collaboration. Therefore the behaviour of the end-user has changed

producing content anytime anywhere - in contrast to non-interactive
websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information
that is provided to them. Since the end-users are sensitized to the
possibilities of the web the web application requirements increases.

and mashups.


form the basis for the upcoming Web of Data (a.k.a. linked data, Web

Semantic Web providing all accessible resources in machine
understandable formats without imposing additional burdens on the

as back-end, some tedious database related tasks required for
traditional Web application development are no longer needed.

Rationale

Most Web application framework are not designed to leverage the full

relational or hierarchical data structures. While attempts to overcome

base on the stack of Semantic Web standards. Clerezza will prove that
the flexibility of the RDF doesn't result in increased complexity, but
on the contrary allows for fast prototyping and development.

Initial Goals

The initial goals for Clerezza are:

   * Donate the existing codebase and import it.

website), so we can run continuous builds with automated tests and
publish all available documentation.
   * Get people involved in advancing the code base in different
directions, integrating it with other projects at Apache.
   * Prepare for an initial release that demonstrates the systems core
capabilities.

Current Status


been developed intensively and reviewed at trialox since August 2008
using Scrum, with a development process emphasizing individual

The vote is open for the next 72 hours and only votes from the Incubator Clerezza can be used as a platform providing all the compile and runtime bundles within an OSGi framework, e.g. Apache Sling, Apache ServiceMix, * Templating mechanism (Renderlets) allowing to render RDF resources their own sandboxed bundles. The URI space these bundles are allowed to The RDF abstraction layer can be used independently of other aspects of their methods. By being based on wymiwyg WRHAPI, it can run both on the The current web trends focusing on information sharing, interoperability over the last years: end-users not only consuming information they also Examples of such applications are social-networking sites, wikis, blogs The REST paradigm and Semantic Web technologies support these trends and 3.0). They change the paradigms for developing complex Web applications. Clerezza allows to develop applications that integrate perfectly in the developer. Additionally, thanks to the flexibility of the RDF model used power of HTTP but often try to reproduce non Web design patterns for the Web environment. In general, application frameworks are oriented towards this such as Drupal have become very popular, they do not at their core * Setup the incubation infrastructure (svn repository, build system, The current codebase is developed and tested using Apache Felix. It has accountability and reviews. We have internally demonstrated that we can release codes as scheduled. Platform core functionalities are available, however the need for new features may arise, performance and robustness could be improved. Incomplete documentation for the project is available with the individual artifacts, both in the generated maven sites as in a version available exposed by Clerezza at runtime. We also have a wiki at http://wiki.trialox.org with some information mainly on the development

process. We also use mailing lists for communication among developers
and users.

Meritocracy


that supports this, encouraging community members to contribute.

Community

Trialox has been developing the current codebase since August 2008.
Trialox was founded in partnership with the University of Zurich and
could benefit from previous research work at the Department of

who has been developing open source Semantic Web applications for many
years, including working with the Jena team at HP Labs.

Trialox has contributed to the JAX-RS specification. Some of the code



WWF. These organisations have strong developer networks including
motivated volunteers, which will contribute to Clerezza.

Core Developers

People from Trialox, the University of Zurich, as well as partner
companies of Trialox have contributed to the project. Currently, the
following persons are core developers of Clerezza:

   * Manuel Innerhofer, Developer at Trialox since November 2008.
   * Hasan Hasan, Developer and Senior Researcher at University of
Zurich since 2006, developing Clerezza since August 2008. His current
research interests cover P2P networking, Service Level management, and
Internet security.
   * Tsuyoshi Ito, Developer and Scrum Master at Trialox, developing
Clerezza since August 2008. He has researched at the University of

(Educational Engineering)

Clerezza since August 2008.

Alignment


We also provide feedback about the usage of Apache Felix and its
components including the framework security via the mailing list. For

also have developed a plugin to help managing projects which contain
ontologies, so that Java classes representing those ontologies can be

benefit from Clerezza or its specific bundles. We are open to
collaborate with other Apache projects which can benefit from

very modular and independent of application frameworks, thus can be
easily integrated with other Apache projects. UIMA and Tika come to

types and formats. An alignment to the JAX-RS implementation in Apache
CXF could not only help removing the dependencies to the CDDL-licensed
code taken from Jersey but also help providing a fully framework
independent implementation with a larger group of developers and thus
higher quality.

Known Risks

The current team of Clerezza core developers is small, but being an
innovative project in the semantic "space", we are confident that
Clerezza can attract new developers.


repository for public access to source codes and also a publicly

project begin under Apache License version 2.0. Some of the initial
committers already have strong experiences with Open Source software
development. Others, while not being totally inexperience, are willing
to learn.


Three main factors will avoid this to happen:


development in this open source foundation
   * Clerezza is used as foundation for research as well a student
projects at the University of Zurich
   * There is a strong commitment by Reto Bachmann-Gmür to maintain
Clerezza
   * WWF expressed their support to deploy Clerezza

Documentation



   *
http://trialox.org/projects/org.clerezza.rdf.core/documentation/overview.xhtml
   *
http://trialox.org/projects/org.clerezza.triaxrs.parent/org.clerezza.triaxrs/documentation/


Initial Source

Clerezza has been in development since mid 2008. Public access to the
source is provided through http://scm.trialox.org/.

Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan

The current codebase is owned by trialox, and will be donated together

as possible.

External Dependencies

There are quite a few open source libraries already used. They have

is CDDL.

The libraries, their sources and licenses are listed here:

Apache Felix, ASL:

   * Framework
   * Framework Security
   * Configuration Admin
   * maven-scr-plugin
   * maven-bundle-plugin

OSGi Alliance, ASL:

   * Core
   * Compendium

Apache Maven, ASL:

   * apache-maven

Eclipse, ASL:

   * Jetty

OPS4J, ASL:

   * Pax Exam
   * Pax Logging
   * Pax protocol mvn-uri

WYMIWYG, ASL:

   * wrhapi
   * wymiwyg-commons

jQuery, MIT license:

   * jquery

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, BSD License:

   * Jena (for the optional jena forntend adaptor, as well as for jena
based serializer/parser)
   * Jena TDB (for the optional tdb backend adaptor)

OpenRDF.org, BSD license (for the optional sesame backend adaptor):

   * Sesame

Mulgara.org, Open Software License ("OSL") v. 3.0 (for the optional
mulgara backend adaptor):

   * mulgara

XSite (http://xsite.codehaus.org/), BSD license:

   * xsite-maven-plugin

Jersey (https://jersey.dev.java.net/), CDDL license

The current code bases on code licensed under the CDDL, according to
http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html we understand we have to get rid
of these before making a release, or redistribute in binary form only.
The following files are affected.

   * QualityFactor.java
   * HttpDateFormat.java
   * HttpHeaderReaderImpl.java
   * UriPattern.java
   * UriComponent.java
   * HttpHeaderListAdapter.java
   * MultivaluedMapImpl.java
   * HttpHeaderReader.java
   * ByteArrayProvider.java
   * SourceProvider.java
   * AbstractMessageReaderWriterProvider.java
   * StreamingOutputProvider.java
   * FormMultivaluedMapProvider.java
   * FileProvider.java
   * ReaderProvider.java
   * InputStreamProvider.java
   * MediaTypeProvider.java
   * EntityTagProvider.java
   * CacheControlProvider.java
   * NewCookieProvider.java
   * CookieProvider.java

Required Resources

Mailing lists:

   * clerezza-dev
   * clerezza-commits
   * clerezza-user (only after leaving the incubator)

Subversion:

   * https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/clerezza

Issue Tracking:

   * JIRA: Apache Clerezza (Clerezza)

Initial Committers

These committers have either worked on the initial codebase (Reto,


   * Reto Bachmann-Gmür (trialox)
   * Manuel Innerhofen (trialox)
   * Tsuyoshi Ito (trialox)
   * Hasan Hasan (University of Zurich)
   * Bertrand Delacretaz (ASF member, Day Software)
   * Michael Marth (Day Software)
   * Tommaso Teofili (Apache UIMA committer)

Affiliations

Manuel Innerhofen, Tsuyoshi Ito and Reto Bachmann-Gmür work at trialox
and might get paid to work on Clerezza.


is based on Clerezza.

Michael Marth and Bertrand Delacretaz work for Day Software.

Sponsors


have agreed to mentor this project.

Champion:

   * Bertrand Delacretaz

Mentors:

   * Gianugo Rabellino
   * Niclas Hedhman
   * Ross Gardler
   * Karl Pauls
   * Reinhard Pötz

Sponsor:

   * Apache Incubator

--
Reto Bachmann-Gmür
trialox.org
Tel: +41445005015



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