I've done a bit of searching around for a good RDF editor. But I'm not sure what one is the most utilised. Can anyone recommend one? I'm looking to write some simple RDF and maybe parse one or two RDF documents.
Many thanks
Are you looking to work at the raw Triples level and in a human readable/editable syntax such as Turtle? If so you can get by just with Notepad or maybe try out my rdfEditor which is an early Alpha release but gives you nice syntax highlighting, checking and auto-completion. This is designed only for editing raw RDF data and does not give you any IDE tools for creating your data.
If you want to work at the class/individual (i.e. more abstract level) and have the editor care about the underlying RDF then you probably want to try either TopBraid Composer or Protege
There's a new TextMate bundle for the Turtle RDF language which offers a bunch of cool features. https://github.com/peta/turtle.tmbundle
Judging from the screenshots, Rhodonite http://rhodonite.angelite.nl/ makes a good impression.
Unfortunately it seems to be abandonded and I could not get it to run on Windows7 (x64). But maybe it runs on your system (download is Windows only)
If you're looking for a web-based RDF / Ontology editor, have a look at Web Protege, an open source web-based project by the Protege team mentioned in the accepted answer.
If you need a more advanced RDF editor, look at RDF and SPARQL plugin for JetBrains IDEs. It supports all RDF 1.1 formats as well as SPARQL 1.1. Including the RDF-star and SPARQL-star extensions.
It features syntax highlighting and validation, prefixed name completion, SPARQL 1.1 Protocol support and much more.
You don't have to buy a JetBrains IDE, since the plugin works with the free versions too.
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I am working with an undocumented, 100.000 lines Delphi 7 project and one of my goals is to create a software architecture document from the source code.
Can you give me any ideas on how to approach this?
These tools work with Delphi 7 and are of great help:
the UML tool ModelMaker
the refacotoring tool ModelMaker Code Explorer
the documentation tool Documentation Insight (as of august 2012)
UML diagrams are a great way to get an overview of structure. How well that overview is, depends on how well the structure is.
For taking over projects like these, I start with some basic documentation (often in MarkDown format, as that text based format is version control friendly, and generates nice HTML).
To get that going, it helps if the original developers or/and some base documentation are still there.
Then just start to:
fix bugs / apply feature requests
use ModelMaker to get a feel for overall structure
use ModelMaker Code Explorer as a refactoring tool
use Documentation Insight to document inside the source code (you can generate help files and web pages with the pro version, see feature matrix)
update my Markdown documents with any information that does not fit in the source code documentation well
Note you can put some documentation in using Model Maker Code Explorer, but it can not be exported as help files, since it uses a different documentation format than Documentation Insight.
So I agree with the comment by Jan Doggen (thanks Jan!): just start. Make sure you have the right tools to help that going.
Try running the source code through a newer Delphi version that supports UML modeling, then let it show you how different sections of code related to each other.
Understand will do the job. Free download includes 15 days evaluation which will be more then enough for what you need to document.
How do people use XQuery and/or XPath 2.0 from Delphi? I've got MSXML v6.0 working from Delphi, so any sufficiently documented COM-implementation will work. What's your favorite?
My Favourite: I've always found that importing MSXML provides excellent support for all the XPath queries I've ever needed it for.
Close second: I'm not aware of any native delphi libraries that can match MSXML's depth of features however OmniXML provides great support for basic XPath queries and if you're not using expressions, for example, then it's a pretty good alternative.
Sadly, I do not think that there are currently any native Delphi XML Libraries that fully support XPath 2.0.
You can use the fast and opensource libxml2 library. There is a Sourceforge Project for free Delphi bindings.
I love OmniXML. It has a lot of supporting code and classes that extend its primary usage. You may also want to look at SimpleStorage that simplifies work with XML a lot.
Does anyone know of an equivalent to FxCop/StyleCop for Delphi? I would really like to get the automatic checking of style, etc. into Continuous Integration.
There's Pascal Analyzer from Peganza: http://www.peganza.com/products_pal.htm
I don't know how the features compare to FxCop, since I haven't really used either one.
The closest I've seen is CodeHealer from SOCK software. We use it, and we have integrated it into our FinalBuilder build. It differs from FxCop in one important way: It analyzes the source code, rather than the produced executable. It also doesn't check quite as much as FxCop does. But I think it is the best thing which is available in this category for Delphi.
Delphi 2009 support isn't there just yet, but they say they're working on it.
Delphi Code Analyzer is another one that is open source.
The DGrok project started with something like FxCop some years ago. The parser and analysis parts are still available, read more at "DGrok 0.8.1: multithreading, default options, GPL" - The parser is a .Net project but
DGrok is a set of tools for parsing
Delphi source code and telling you
stuff about it. Read more about it on
the DGrok project page.
There is a new Delphi plugin for Sonar, which uses a Delphi grammar to run automatic tests over the source code.
I've heard of something called Delforex but haven't used it myself (yet)
Delforex is great for actually formatting the code. It does not do much more than that though. (we have/do use it).
I would second the votes for either Pascal Analyzer or Code Healer.
Vaccano
Doesn't Delphi output .net compatible IL code? I haven't used it in an age but I thought newer versions output .net assemblies.
If so then I would have thought FXcop would work and you could always add some of your own custom rules to it. Stylecop would not work but you could at least get FXCop running.
Are there any support tools like coderush or resharper for F#?
Preview version of FSharpRefactor released in Visual Studio Gallery.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/339cbae9-911d-4f99-9033-3c3564676f45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6-YjUULNCA/
F# Refactor open source project on CodePlex (Apache license).
Take a look at the open-source Visual F# Power Tools project. They've got a rename refactoring, some code generation stuff (eg. record stub generation), graying out of unused declarations, as well as some other things. They're moving pretty fast at the moment, with lots of new features getting added all the time.
There's an effort to support F# in ReSharper via an external plug-in (itself written in F#). You can find preliminary info here.
FSharpRefactor 0.1 (Preview version) Released on the Visual Studio Gallery.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/339cbae9-911d-4f99-9033-3c3564676f45?SRC=Home
Not yet, as far as I know. I was also looking for something similar to no success. I suspect as soon as F# hits VS2010 as its integral part, or even a bit earlier, such tools will eventually emerge.
As far as ReSharper is concerned, you may want to drop JetBrains a quick email, it would be interesting to know whether these guys have any plans regarding F#.
Since the push in f# is towards light mode the reformatting possible is likely to be both limited, and hard to implement.
Normally reformatting takes the structural information and uses that to create the textual position. In the case of #light the textual position (of indenting at least) is the structure. As such any reformatting would be at best to sort inter symbol spacing, hardly onerous to do yourself.
I would therefore not expect a commercial product for it at least until the 'proper' integration with the IDE (I do not consider the current CTP proper in this regard since several outstanding bugs with it exist which will not be fixed in 2008)
CodeRush is working in F# editor. At least some code assistance and code templates. But code templates are not defined yet (you have to create your own).
I'm new to developing in OpenLaszlo, and have tried Eclipse (hoping for decent code completion), but found it far too heavy for my tastes. fell back to using Textmate, but the bundle for OpenLaszlo is terribly out of date.
Any suggestions? or should I just roll up my sleeves and write a new bundle for Textmate?
I personally use SpketIDE as an Eclipse plugin. It has some code completion, good syntax highlighting.
I use VIM for this. The VIM mode that ships with OpenLaszlo recognizes both the XML tags and the embedded JavaScript. Of course, if you're not already a VIM user, it's a big project to dive in.
If you use a texteditor or XML editor with support for XSD schema, you can generate a custom XSD file of your application using this OpenLaszlo Schema Generator tool. The tool uses Ant to generate the schema file, which then can be used by the editor of your choice.
We used Visual Studio. And we used it just as a great XML editor.
I also used Notepad2 because it is very lightweight and has syntax highlighting.
I've been using Notepad++ with the XML language chosen (since Open Laszlo is basically just XML and javascript). Simple, but effective and free.
I wouldn't have added it otherwise, but since its arch-enemy VI(m) was mentioned:
Emacs
is worth listing. :)
Without knowing much about OL, I am pretty sure one of gazillions of modes it has provides some level of support for your editing needs.
I've been developing in OpenLaszlo since 2006. I currently use NotePad++ with .lzx files set to be interpreted as XML files, this allows the code to be highlighted well in different colours for the different parts that make up OpenLaszlo code (XML nodes, JavaScript/AS3, etc.).
You can find NotePad++ at:
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
it is free.
I just test my application by loading it into a web browser page.