Thanks to all who have responded. This has confirmed our assumptions, and the results were:
- not at all: 44% - not very important, I can use SPIN or Jena rules instead: 44% - important for my research: 11% - important for production applications: 0% TopBraid Suite 3.4 will be the last version with SWRL support for now. 3.5 will have greatly improved SPIN support instead. Regards, Holger On Apr 4, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Holger Knublauch wrote: > Dear users, > > now that SPIN is a W3C submission, it has reached the same standard status > as SWRL. Furthermore, SPIN has key advantages to SWRL: > > - It uses SPARQL - a standard supported by every RDF store > - Unlike SWRL, SPIN is an active effort. SWRL has been made obsolete by RIF > while SPIN is complementary to RIF > > SWRL support in TopBraid has always been limited. This is not unique to > TopBraid. In general, SWRL has had little traction which is one of the key > reasons for it becoming obsolete. No major RDF stores or rules engines > support SWRL. > > Because of this, rather than try to improve SWRL support, we want to focus > on creating a world class SPARQL Rules (SPIN) support. Our goal is to make > this direction clear and to avoid any unnecessary confusion for our users. > With this in mind we are planning to remove SWRL support from the upcoming > 3.5 release. We would leave Jena rules support in. > > To help us ensure that this will not adversely impact a large user group, we > are asking you to respond to this quick poll: > > http://micropoll.com/t/KEs31ZByL8 > > Thank you > Holger > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, > TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
