"Most of the available open-sourced triplestores currently require either compilation, or the installation of a relational database like PostgreSQL for persistence, or are reliant on a host programming language like Perl or Python. In contrast, Kowari's installation is a snap (if your machine has Java 1.4 installed)-- download, unpack, and run."
Er, if Perl and Python are "host languages", then Java is one as well.
"Er, if Perl and Python are "host languages", then Java is one as well."
Sure, agreed. I should have been more clear. My point is that Java's a very common language that an awful lot of people seem to have installed, and downloading jars and doubleclicking them is much easier than downloading a tar.gz file, unpacking it, checking dependencies, running the build script, and then invoking the script. Even perl -MCPAN -eshell isn't as easy. I don't like coding in Java, but I am partial to how easy it is to install compiled Java software. It just seems to be in a different league than other languages in terms of deployment, and that seemed worth noting.
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