The OWLlink API: Teaching OWL Components a Common Protocol

We introduce the OWLlink API that implements the OWLlink protocol on top of the Java-based OWL API. Besides providing an API to access remote OWLlink reasoning engines, it turns any OWL API aware reasoner into an OWLlink server. As such the OWLlink API provides the missing piece to replace the outdated DIG protocol by OWLlink in applications such as Protege.

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