TKS
For anyone who missed it, the rights to TKS have been purchased by Northrop Grumman. Importantly, they've agreed to support the Kowari project. Wow.

I've agreed to do a handover of the code, and as a part of this I'm writing Javadoc for the XA store. I helped write this over 4 years ago, so I sort of know it, and I sort of don't. DavidM has modified a few things since I was last in that code, so it's been a learning experience for me. Fortunately the process of Javadoc is helping me learn it all.

I'll be flying to the US next week on the 6th of July, and will be returning on the 27th of July. I'm not looking forward to missing Luc (and Anne). On the other hand, I love traveling for work, particularly to the States, so it won't be all bad. It will definitely slow my blogging down though.

Rules
In the meantime I'm still working on the rules engine and the tests. It appears to work remarkably well. Must be all that effort I put into it. :-)

Since I have to work all day for NGC at the moment, I'm spending my evenings (and the upcoming weekend) working on the rules. All that is left of my paid work is the proper set of tests, and perhaps a short document describing how to write a rule configuration (in case something more than RDFS is desired). I'm pretty sure I can get all that done before I fly out.

Many of the tests specified by the W3C are quite trivial, but they reminded me that RDFS requires axiomatic statements. That is fine, as I could just load them into the destination as a separate RDF file. This bothered me though, as it's a very manual process, and a necessary one for many rule systems. So rather than expanding on the tests tonight I've been encoding the axioms into the rules engine. Now the RDFS rules file includes all the axioms, and the rules engine knows how to read them in and insert them at the beginning of execution. I still need to test that this is working correctly, and it is compiling as I type.

It's now 1am, and I have to give Luc his bottle when he wakes up in the morning, so I'd better run this thing and get to bed (please work first time!)