com.hp.hpl.jena.reasoner
Interface ReasonerFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

RDFSReasonerFactory, TransitiveReasonerFactory

public interface ReasonerFactory

The interface through which a reasoner (inference engine) can be instantiated. Instances of this are registered with the global ReasonerRegistry.

Version:

$Revision: 1.7 $ on $Date: 2003/06/22 16:10:50 $

Author:

Dave Reynolds

Method Summary

Reasoner	create(Resource configuration) Constructor method that builds an instance of the associated Reasoner
Model	getCapabilities() Return a description of the capabilities of this reasoner encoded in RDF.
java.lang.String	getURI() Return the URI labelling this type of reasoner

Method Detail

create

public Reasoner create(Resource configuration)

Constructor method that builds an instance of the associated Reasoner

Parameters:

configuration - a set of arbitrary configuration information to be passed the reasoner, encoded as RDF properties of a base configuration resource, can be null in no custom configuration is required.

getCapabilities

public Model getCapabilities()

Return a description of the capabilities of this reasoner encoded in RDF. These capabilities may be static or may depend on configuration information supplied at construction time. May be null if there are no useful capabilities registered.

getURI

public java.lang.String getURI()

Return the URI labelling this type of reasoner