Downloads
This page contains OilEd software downloads. If you have difficulty downloading or installing, contact oil-help. Please supply as much information as you can about the problem -- the version number, what you were doing when the problem occurred and so on.
OilEd 3.5.7 is now available. The main update here is the addition of support for OWL. OilEd will now read and write OWL in RDF/XML. Note, however that because OilEd is effectively targeted at OWL-DL (see the OWL Features document for details), OilEd will not be able to read all OWL files. The OWL support should still be considered as "prototype" quality code!
Consult the README and CHANGES files in the distribution for further information.
Installation
Unpack the archive and use the scripts to launch the application. You are advised to read the README.txt file in the installation directory.
There is a list of common problems and possible solutions relating to installation and running OilEd. Please check this list before mailing us with questions.
System Requirements
JDK 1.4. OilEd 3.5.7 is known to work with JDK version 1.4.0. See note below relating to issues with JDK versions.
Windows
- OilEd 3.5.7 (Windows)+reasoner. This archive also contains FaCT reasoner (for Windows).
Linux
- OilEd 3.5.7 (Linux)+reasoner. This updated version supports export to OWL-RDF. This archive also contains the FaCT reasoner (for Linux).
Other
- OilEd 3.5.7 (no reasoner). This archive does not contain a reasoner. Use this distribution only if you are not interested in using a reasoner, or wish to use OilEd with an alternative DIG reasoner.
Access to Sesame
Experimental access to OWL ontologies stored in Sesame repositories
is also now provided. In order to use this, download sesame-oil.jar, place it in the
lib directory of your installation and remove the
existing oil.jar. This will add new options to the menus
to open and save to Sesame. Note that
OilEd expects these Sesame repositories to contain
OWL files (rather than, say, DAML+OIL).
OilViz
OilViz adds hierarchy visualisation to OilEd.
Source
Source code for OilEd. This is available as an open-source project under the GPL licence. Note that this source does not contain the reasoner binaries.
Known Issues
We have experienced some problems on Linux using the internal connection to the reasoner and versions of the JDK later than 1.4.0. This seems to be a problem related to the JLinker libraries.
We have also had reports of problems with FaCT under Red Hat 9. These are currently under investigation.
