This is the main code repository for the Eclipse RDF4J project.
Visit the project website for news, documentation, and downloadable releases. For support questions, comments, and any ideas for improvements you'd like to discuss, please use our discussion forum. If you have found a bug or have a very specific feature/improvement request, you can also use our issue tracker to report it.
For installation and usage instructions of the RDF4J Workbench and Server applications, see RDF4J Server and Workbench.
For installation and usage instructions of the RDF4J Java libaries, see Programming with RDF4J.
RDF4J is a multi-module maven project. It can be compiled, tested, and installed with the usual maven lifecycle phases from the command line, for example:
mvn verify
- compiles and runs all testsmvn package
- compiles, tests, and packages all modulesmvn install
- compiles, tests, packages, and installs all artifacts in the local maven repositorymvn -Pquick install
- compiles, packages and installs everything (skipping test execution)These commands can be run from the project root to execute on the entire project or (if you're only interested in working with a particular module) from any module's subdirectory.
To build the full RDF4J project, including onejar and SDK files and full aggregated javadoc, from source, run:
mvn -Passembly package
The SDK and onejar will be available in assembly/target
. Individual module jars and wars will be in target/
in their respective modules.
Modern IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, or Netbeans can of course also be used to build, test, and run (parts of) the project.
We welcome contributions! Whether you have a new feature you want to add, or a bug you want to fix, or a bit of documentation you want to improve, it's all very welcome. Have a look in our issue tracker for any open problems, in particular the ones marked as good first issue or as help wanted. Or feel free to add your own new issue if what you have in mind is not there yet.
To get started on your contribution, please first read our Contributor guidelines.
The short version:
GH-1234-short-description-here
where 1234 is the Github issue number.mvn verify
from the project root to make sure all tests succeed (both your own new ones, and existing).These steps are explained in more detail in the Contributor guidelines.
You can find more detailed information about our development and release processes in the Developer Workflow and Project Management documentation.