Apache Jena

Open source semantic web framework for Java From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apache Jena is an open source Semantic Web framework for Java. It provides an API to extract data from and write to RDF graphs. The graphs are represented as an abstract "model". A model can be sourced with data from files, databases, URLs or a combination of these. A model can also be queried through SPARQL 1.1.

Stable release
5.6.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 15 October 2025; 5 months ago (15 October 2025)
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Apache Jena Semantic Web Framework
DevelopersHP Labs (until October 2009), then Apache Software Foundation
Stable release
5.6.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 15 October 2025; 5 months ago (15 October 2025)
Written inJava
TypeSemantic Web
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitejena.apache.org
RepositoryJena Repository
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Jena is similar to RDF4J (formerly OpenRDF Sesame); though, unlike RDF4J, Jena provides support for OWL (Web Ontology Language). The framework has various internal reasoners and the Pellet reasoner (an open source Java OWL-DL reasoner) can be set up to work in Jena.

Jena supports serialisation of RDF graphs to:

Versions

After Apache integration

Jena was integrated as a project under the umbrella of The Apache Software Foundation in April 2012, after having been in the Apache Incubator since November 2010.[2][3]

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Release name Date
Apache Jena 4.5.0 2022-05-01
Apache Jena 4.4.0 2022-01-13
Apache Jena 4.3.2 2021-12-17
Apache Jena 4.3.1 2021-12-10
Apache Jena 4.3.0 2021-12-05
Apache Jena 4.2.0 2021-09-12
Apache Jena 4.1.0 2021-05-31
Apache Jena 4.0.0 2021-03-27
Apache Jena 3.17.0 2020-11-25
Apache Jena 3.16.0 2020-07-09
Apache Jena 3.15.0 2020-05-15
Apache Jena 3.14.0 2020-01-16
Apache Jena 3.13.1 2019-10-06
Apache Jena 3.13.0 2019-09-25
Apache Jena 3.12.0 2019-05-27
Apache Jena 3.11.0 2019-04-24
Apache Jena 3.10.0 2018-12-30
Apache Jena 3.9.0 2018-10-08
Apache Jena 3.8.0 2018-07-02
Apache Jena 3.7.0 2018-02-14
Apache Jena 3.6.0 2017-12-17
Apache Jena 3.5.0 2017-11-02
Apache Jena 3.4.0 2017-07-21
Apache Jena 3.3.0 2017-05-21
Apache Jena 3.2.0 2017-02-10
Apache Jena 3.1.0 2016-05-14
Apache Jena 3.0.0 2015-07-29
Apache Jena 2.13.0 2015-03-13
Apache Jena 2.12.0 2014-08-07
Apache Jena 2.11.0 2013-09-18
Apache Jena 2.10.0 2013-02-25
Apache Jena 2.7.0 2011-12-23
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Before Apache integration

Jena was created by HP Labs and was on SourceForge since 2001, and was donated to The Apache Software Foundation in November 2010.[4]

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Jena 2.6.0 2009-05-18
Jena 2.1 2004-02-10
Jena 2.0 2003-08-28
Jena 1.1.0 2001-07-06
Jena 1.0 2000-08-28
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Fuseki

Fuseki is an HTTP interface to RDF data. It supports SPARQL for querying and updating. The project is a sub-project of Jena and is developed as servlet. Fuseki can also be run stand-alone server as it ships preconfigured with the Jetty web server.

ARQ

ARQ is a query engine within Jena that supports SPARQL.[5]

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