In this paper we describe a persistent object store designed and implemented to test and evaluate the merits and shortcomings of the Java Reflection API. Our goal is to design a persistent object store that supports transparent object persistence. Our premise was that we should be able to achieve this goal if the reflection API is designed with enough features and flexibility. It turns out that...

LDApp is designed as a very modular JavaScript Linked Data stack. A requirement for the modular design was an API to handle the graph data. RDF-Interfaces was the only JavaScript API standard, but lacks store handling and easy management of multiple parsers and serializers. The existing RDF-Interfaces API was extended to cover these use cases. To complete the framework, a JSON-LD integration is...

Real-time collaboration is being offered by multiple libraries and APIs (Google Drive Real-time API, Microsoft Real-Time Communications API, TogetherJS, ShareJS), rapidly becoming a mainstream option for webservices developers. However, they are offered as centralised services running in a single server, regardless if they are free/ open source or proprietary software. After re-engineering Apac...

This paper presents the OWL API a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL 2 ontologies. The API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification. It supports parsing and rendering in the syntaxes defined in the W3C specification, namely, the Functional Syntax, RDF/XML, OWL/XML and the Manchester OWL Syntax. Finally, the reference implementation of the A...

The W3C’s Geolocation API may rapidly standardize the transmission of location information on the Web, but, in dealing with such sensitive information, it also raises serious privacy concerns. We analyze the manner and extent to which the current W3C Geolocation API provides mechanisms to support privacy. We propose a privacy framework for the consideration of location information and use it to...

InfiniBand is a switched fabric interconnect. The InfiniBand specification does not define an API. However the OFED package, libibverbs, has become the default API on Linux and Solaris systems. Sparse documentation exists for the verbs API. The simplest InfiniBand program provided by OFED, ibv rc pingpong, is about 800 lines long. The semantics of using the verbs API for this program is not obv...

JRoute is a set of Java classes that provide an application programming interface (API) for routing of Xilinx FPGA devices. The interface allows various levels of control from connecting two routing resources to automated routing of a net with fanout. This API also handles ports, which are useful when designing object oriented macro circuits or cores. Each core can define its own ports, which c...

We present a generic API suitable for provision of highly generic storage facilities that can be tailored to produce various individually customised storage infrastructures. The paper identifies a candidate set of minimal storage system building blocks, which are sufficiently simple to avoid encapsulating policy where it cannot be customised by applications, and composable to build highly flexi...

Dynamic Protocol Mining (DPM) techniques are a promising approach to infer useful API protocols automatically. However, their results are biased to input test cases and the instrumentation overhead discounts their usability in industrial practice. In this paper, we propose a distributed dynamic protocol mining framework NSpecMiner. Our framework is based on a client-server architecture, where t...