What is the JOBC API and what does it do?
JOBC (Java Ontology Base Connectivity) is an application programming interface that provides applications with a high-level access to ontological resources stored in the IBM Ontology Management System. The JOBC API follows the design patterns of JDBC, with several alterations. Like JDBC, JOBC provides a connection-based API for interacting with data sources. Unlike JDBC, however, JOBC allows connections to be made without reference to a particular base ontology. Such connections would be connections to a default ontology that would include the top-level definitions of XML-based ontology languages such as OWL, DAML+OIL, RDF, RDF Schema, XML, and XML Schema. These definitions are required in order to process any ontological information. The API is implemented using the abstract factory class. The DriverManager class provides a method that is used to construct a connection based on the URI used to initiate the connection. There is a mechanism in the DriverManager that uses the given ontol
