Jeremy Carroll and Brian McBride of HP Labs, Bristol, UK, have announced an update of their popular Java API for RDF, Jena.

Version 1.1.0 includes the following improvements:

• I/O enhancements, including
  • readers and writers plug-in interface giving support for multiple serialization languages
  • a PrettyWriter for RDF/XML
  • N-Triple reader and writer
  • parseType="daml:collection" support
  • tracks whether literals are well formed XML
  • bug fixes in RDFFilter
• an efficient model compare which does intelligent matching of anonymous nodes
• jena.rdfcompare a new application for comparing RDF models
• jena.rdfcopy a new application for translating RDF from one language to another