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

jena.query / arq.query

Execute a SPARQL or RDQL query.

jena.sparql / arq.sparql

Execute a SPARQL query.

jena.rset / arq.rset

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

jena.qtest / arq.qtest

Run SPARQL tests.

jena.rdfquery

Execute an RDQL query using the old RDQL engine (deprecated).

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>