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Jena provides a number of utilities that wrap up access to some commonly used functionality.

These command utilities print a usage message with the -h flag.

RDF processing utilities

jena.rdfparse

Call ARP

jena.rdfcat

Copy and merge models

jena.rdfcopy

Copy a model, changing its syntax

jena.rdfcompare

Test whether two models are isomorphic

jena.n3

A tool to access the N3 parser directly.

Ontology utilities

jena.schemagen

schemagen - a tool to generate Java from a vocabulary or ontology

Database utilities

jena.dbcreate

Create a Jena model in a database.

jena.dblist

List all models in a databse.

jena.dbload

Load a file of data into a database.

jena.dbdump

Dump a database

jena.dbremove

Remove a Jena model and all its data from a database. Use with care.

Query Utilities

ARQ commands documentation

Scripts to run these commands, in the bin/ and bat/ directories, require the environment variable ARQROOT to be set to the root directory of a Jena or ARQ installation.

arq.query

Execute a SPARQL query.

arq.sparql

Execute a SPARQL query.

arq.rset

Parse SPARQL Query Results XML Format or SPARQL testing results files.  Print in these formats or in plain text.

arq.qtest

Run SPARQL tests.

Remote Access

These programs can be set use use a proxy to traverse a firewall by setting system properties. To use a socks proxy include the following in the command line:

   -DsocksProxyHost=<your-proxy-domain-name-or-ip-address>

To use an http proxy include the following on the command line:

   -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=<your-proxy> -DproxyPort=<your-proxy-port-number>