ARQ is a query processor for Jena that implements SPARQL.

Announcing ARQ 1.3 - this is an upgrade to the version distributed
with Jena 2.3.  It includes an updated copy of jena.jar.

In this release:

    Aligned to latest SPARQL spec.
    JSON output support
    More library functions
    Property functions improvements.

Other changes:

    Bug fixes and general maintenance

Download:
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jena/ARQ-1.3.zip

Home page:
	http://jena.sourceforge.net/ARQ/

ARQ is also available via anonymous CVS:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jena co ARQ

SPARQL is described in:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

Status
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The implementation of SPARQL is complete and meets the SPARQL last call
specification.

JAR changes
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ARQ requires the version of jena.jar included in the download or a later
version from Jena CVS.

There is a new jar : json.jar, which is the JAva JSON code from http://json.org/

API Changes
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QueryExecutionFactory
  Rationalized some Static methods

Other
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See ChangeLog.txt for more details.

Online Validator
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http://www.sparql.org/validator.html

Support and Questions
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Comments and questions about ARQ to the Jena mailing list 
    jena-dev@groups.yahoo.com