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Web Application Development with Ontopia – 3. Creating the JSPs

Happy New Year 2010

After a busy December month, the Christmas vacation finally gave me some room to concentrate on what really matters.

Here’s my third blog post on building web apps with Ontopia. A bit late – I had hoped to have it out before Christmas – but at least I made it within January 01 2010 … have a good one!

Getting to the Point

This blog post is part of a series on Web Application Development with Ontopia.

  1. Part 1: Installation & Requirements
  2. Part 2: Creating the Database
  3. Part 3: Creating the JSPs

In Part 2 of this series on building web applications with Ontopia we had a look at how to set up an application’s domain model using Ontopoly.

This post discusses how to go about building a custom web interface to present the data.
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4 Comments by Trond on January 1, 2010
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Web Application Development with Ontopia – 2. Creating the Database

Intro

This blog post is part of a series on Web Application Development with Ontopia.

  1. Part 1: Installation & Requirements
  2. Part 2: Creating the Database
  3. Part 3: Creating the JSPs

In part 1, we looked at how to set up Ontopia. We also described the application that we intend to build (a blog) and what we need to develop in order to achieve our goal.

This time we’ll look at how to set up the “database schema” and create new blog posts by using Ontopia’s web interface. The resulting topic map can be browsed here.

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2 Comments by Trond on December 4, 2009
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Shakespeare Topic Map

Back when I was in the university I took an undergraduate subject called Web programming. As part of that class, each student had to build a web site presenting the Shakespeare plays in a given format. The source was a bunch of XML documents.

Building the site using PHP and SAX parsing was fun enough at the time, but even though the XTM 1.0 specification mentions #play, #shakespeare and #written-by, I can’t recall ever seeing a topic map enabled site of the Shakespeare plays.

I therefore thought that it’d be fun to transform the Shakespeare XMLs into a topic map and publish it through a web site built on top of Ontopia.

I’m just putting the front end together piece by piece (15 mins here and 15 mins there :/ – currently not very usable).

The current (draft) version of the topic map is available for export (~23 MB LTM, ~133 MB XTM 2.0). This can also be browsed with Omnigator. If you observe any major flaws, feel free to leave a comment below :)

No Comments by Trond on September 2, 2009
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Topic Maps in May: Ontopia & Subj3ct

Ontopia

The Ontopia project has had it’s “kick-off” meeting, which I unfortunately could not attend, and set up a blog at http://ontopia.wordpress.com/, with mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ontopia. Awesome.

Subj3ct

Back in May, NetworkedPlanet launched Subj3ct.com. I quote: Subj3ct provides the technology and services to enable Web 3.0 applications to define and exchange subject definitions.

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