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TopBraid Composer is an enterprise-class modeling environment for developing Semantic Web ontologies and building semantic applications. Fully compliant with W3C standards, Composer offers comprehensive support for developing, managing and testing configurations of knowledge models and their instance knowledge bases. As part of TopBraid Suite, Composer incorporates a flexible and extensible framework with a published API for developing semantic client/server or browser-based solutions, that can integrate disparate applications and data sources. Implemented as an Eclipse plug-in, Composer serves as a development environment for TopBraid Ensemble™ and for all the applications delivered using TopBraid Live™. Composer is used to develop ontology models, configure data source integration as well as to customize dynamic forms and reports. Extensive Help is provided within the tool for both basic and advanced topics of use. A Getting Started Guide with hands-on exercises is also available. Three versions are available - Free Edition, Standard Edition and Maestro Edition. Free EditionTopBraid Composer is a professional development environment for W3C's Semantic Web standards RDF Schema, the OWL Web Ontology Language and the SPARQL Query Language. The Free Edition is an entry-level tool for creating and editing RDF/OWL files and running SPARQL queries over them. The Free Edition also provides support for defining business rules and integrity constraints using the SPARQL Inference Notation (SPIN). The Free Edition does not include Support and Maintenance. Users of the Free Edition can send their questions to the TopBraid Composer mailing list, but priority will be given to customers of the commercial editions. Standard EditionThe Standard Edition greatly extends the Free Edition. It provides visual editors for RDF graphs and class diagrams. While the Free Edition can only be used to work with files, the Standard Edition provides scalable database backends (such as Jena SDB/TDB, AllegroGraph, Oracle 11g and Sesame) as well as utilities for importing-from and exporting-to XML, Excel, RDBMs and other data formats. Beside SPIN, the Standard Edition also supports other inference engines including Jena rules and the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) as well as OWLIM and Pellet. Composer provides a comprehensive set of features to cover the whole life cycle of semantic application development. In addition to being a complete ontology editor with refactoring support, Composer also can be used as a run-time environment to execute rules, queries, reasoners and mash-ups. Based on Eclipse, Composer can also be extended with custom Java plug-ins. This supports the rapid development of semantic applications in a single platform. Maestro EditionTopBraid Composer - Maestro Edition (TBC-ME) is the most comprehensive version of TopBraid Composer. It is optimized for developing web applications and services based on the TopBraid Live platform. Most notably, TBC-ME can be used to develop and execute SPARQLMotion scripts including web services for processing data chains and creating integrated data services. TBC-ME includes its own internal web server for testing applications resulting in significantly improved turn-around times in the application development. TBC can also be used to run TopBraid Ensemble and assemble Ensemble-based applications. To run TopBraid Ensemble out-of-the-box within TBC-ME, open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8083/tbl/. For other features unique to the Maestro Edition, consult the comparison table below. Feature Comparison
LicensingTopBraid Composer - Maestro Edition requires a different license key than the Standard Edition. Both versions are available separately, and upgrades from Standard to Maestro Edition can be purchased. See the purchase page for pricing information. TopBraid Composer users that do not decide to purchase Maestro can download and evaluate the full version for a 30 days evaluation period. After that time, the additional capabilities will be disabled. At any time, a different license key can be entered in the Help menu. |
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